PERSONALS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18629, 5 December 1928, Page 8

PERSONALS

Mr T. 11. M Williams, wireless operator of the Southern Cross on the Tasman Flight, is staying at the United Service Hotel.

Dr P. Stanley Foster, who has been for some months in England and America, is returning to New Zealand by the Maunganui, and will arrive in Christchurch on December 19. Guests at the United Service Hotel include: Messrs Vivian S. Jacobs (Dunedin), R. King (Auckland), G. Budsall, S. 11. Brady (Sydney), A. Watson (Invercargill), T. Whitehead (Melbourne), Dr Hickey, A. Law and R. M. Doughty (Wellington). Mr L. H. Milliard arrived in Auckland from Southampton by the Rotorua yesterday to take up the position of supervisor for the Pacific Cable Board in Auckland. Mr S. Irwin Crookes, a member of the Auckland City Council and of the Auckland Electric Power Board, returned by the Rotorua from a four months’ trip to the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Captain P. S. Peterson, of the Wellington Harbour Board staff, returned from Sydney by the Marama yesterday. Mr E. A. Batt, who is to leave Wellington in January on an extended visit to the Old Country, was farewelled by members of the Wellington Automobile Club on Monday night. Major-General Sir George Richardson, accompanied by Miss R. Richardson. left London on October 27 by the Oronsay for Australia, en route to New Zealand. Mr James Wilson, formerly of Auckland, and now deputy chief manager of the National Bank of Australasia, with headquarters in Melbourne, arrived from Southampton by the Rotorua. Mr Wilson, accompanied by Mrs Wilson and their two sons, has been on a nine months’ trip to the United Kingdom and the Continent. Captain R. A. Anderson, M.C., of Christchurch, who has been stationed with his regiment, the C-ameronians (Scottish Rifles), on .the north-west frontier of India for the last four and a half years, arrived from Southampton by the Rotorua. Captain Anderson has been an officer of the Imperial Army for over twelve years, and is now on a year’s leave.

Messrs D. Rodie, E. M. Hunt and A. T. Tauber (Wellington) are staying at Warner’s Hotel.

Sir James Mills, chairman of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, is aboard the Cormorin, which has arrived from England. He will visit New Zealand, combining business with pleasure, states an Australian Press Association message from Fremantle. Mr George M. Moir, M.Sc., A.1.C., who left Dunedin a year ago to undertake research work at the Dairy Institute, Reading, England, has won the Pedlar Research Scholarship awarded by the Institute of Chemistry. This scholarship is tenable for a year, and is worth £3OO. Mr G. Hoskins, recently appointed engineer-in-chief of the Sydney Metropolitan Board of Water, Sewerage and Drainage, graduated in engineering in 1908 at Canterbury College, Christchurch, New Zealand (writes the “Shire and Municipal Record”). After New Zealand experience' in roads, bridges and sewerage work, he joined the Public Works Department of New South Wales in 1911 as resident engineer in charge of survey design and construction of city and country sewerage. In a period of seventeen years he has been prominently identified with a number of major engineering developments, and by merit has now attained one of the most important engineering positions in Australia. Mr H. H. Sterling, the new General Manager of Railways, officially took up his duties on Saturday. Appointed last April at a salary of £3500 a year, Mr Sterling had up till Friday continued to act as general manager of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, but had devoted a considerable amount of his time to matters relating to railway reorganisation. Originally Mr Sterling was in the railway service for close on twenty-four and left the Department on February l. 1920, to become general manager of the. Dairy Company, with headquarters at Hamilton. At that time he was a member of the Railway Board, and during the absence of Mr W. J. Jones abroad ac ted as chairman. Subsequently the board was disbanded. Negotiations between the Prime Minister and Mr Sterling took place, the result being that he again joined the service, this time as its head.