PERSONALS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18548, 23 August 1928, Page 8

PERSONALS

Mr Arthur J. Mills, C.8.E., one of Great Britain’s foremost business leaders, will arrive in Dunedin this week, and will spend a few days there. Mr Mills is chairman of one of the biggest dairy produce organisations in the world, and during the war he was a member of the Ministry of Food. He has also occupied the position of chairman of the Home and Foreign Produce Exchange (the headquarters of the British dairy produce trade). Mr Mills is a past chairman of the Imported Meat Trade Association of Great Britain, which has its headquarters on the Smithfield market.

The Rev R. M. M. Sutherland, formerly of Dunedin, is now residing in Wellington. Nearly fifty years ago he was inducted as minister at the Kaikorai Church. This has been his only charge, but he retired from active work some years ago. Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P., is suffering from an attack of influenza.

Mr Thomas H. Doane, of San Francisco, formerly vice-president and general manager of the Pacific Coast Paper Co., who is visiting New Zealand with Mrs Doane, arrived in Wellington by the Ulimaroa. Mr C. J. Cowan, formerly manager of the New Zealand Shipping Co., has been appointed managing director in London of the New Zealand Shipping Co., and the Federal Steam Navigation Company.

Mr F. Miller, Rector of the Waitaki Boys* High School, is visiting Wellington.

Mr J. J.Wcst, chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal, and an alderman of that city, who is accompanied by Mrs West, will sail from Sydney to-day by the Niagara, for Auckland, to make a tour of New Zealand.

Mr W. R. Blow, New Zealand Government representative in Sydney, has been advised that, in view of his increased duties in regard to trade and industrial matters between New Zealand and the Commonwealth, he has been given the additional designation of New Zealand Trade Commissioner for the State of New South Wales.

Professor Fernando de Lara Reis, of the Portuguese colony of Micau, China, is visiting Sydney to study Australian school conditions.

Sir Otton Beit, the South African magnate, is l>'ing ill at his house at Wel\qyn, in Hertfordshire, states a British Official Message.

Mr J. M. Hood, of the Crown Cork Co., Ltd.. Los Angeles, who arrived in SN’dney last week, will spend six weeks touring Australia by car, before proceeding to New Zealand.

Mr W. F. M. Buckle>% a former member of the Board of Governors of Lincoln College, and at one time well known as a breeder of draught horses, is seriously ill, and his condition is causing his friends concern. Mr Thomas H. Doane, of San Francisco, formerly vice-president and general manager of the Pacific Coast Paper Co., who has been visiting Australia, arrived in New Zealand by the Uli-

Mr 11. J. Wyles, New Zealand Railway electrical engineer, who is in charge of the work of the electrification of the L>-ttelton tunnel, left < hristchurch for Wellington last night. Mr A. J.effs. an English electrical engineer, arrived in Christchurch 3’esterday in connection with the work.

Messrs A. R. Stone, W. Thomas (secretar\* of the Auckland Council of Horticulture), and Professor 11. B. Kirk (chairman of the Examining Board of the New Zealand Institute) arrived in Christchurch yesterday to attend the Dominion conference of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture.