PERSONALS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18639, 17 December 1928, Page 8

PERSONALS

MINISTERIAL. j The Hon W. A. Veitch, Minister of | Labour, left Dunedin by the second express to-day for Wellington. Guests at the United Service Hotel include Messrs J. Neill and M. Steele (Dunedin). Mr D. A. Strachan (Education Department) and Mrs Strachan will leave on Thursday by the Maunganui for several weeks’ holiday in Australia. Mr F. S. Dyson relinquished his position as Public Works Engineer for the Otago district on Thursday. Prior to Mr Dyson’s departure for Auckland he was presented by Mr A. J. Ridler, on behalf of the staff, with a gold pencil and a pipe. The Hon Downie Stewart, former Minister of Finance, is utilising his leisure from official business by undergoing a course of hydro treatment. He left Wellington for Rotorua to-day. Major-General Sir George Richardson, late Administrator of the mandated territory of Western Samoa, has left Wellington for Auckland. He proposes to live in Auckland for some time. A public meeting of residents is to be held in the Cheviot Public Hall on Friday to consider tendering a complimentary function to the Hon G. Forbes, Minister for Lands and Agriculture, on the occasion of his appointment as a Minister of the Crown. Mr W. J. Shanly, who was private secretary to the late Minister for Agriculture, has yet to be posted to a Minister. The whole of the personnel of the Ministerial secretariat has been absorbed, and the majority of the private secretaries will carry on under the new regime in the Departments in which they were serving a t the time of the change of Government. The Hon John Cecil arrived at Wellington by the Makura. He is a son of Lord William Cecil, and at one time was First Secretary to the British Embassy at Washington. Mrs Cecil, who is accompanying her husband, was formerly Cornelia Vanderbilt. They will spend part of their time in New Zea--1 land with Zane Grey and party at Mercury Island.

Mr F. W. Anderson,of Opawa, is on his way to a visit to Singapore. Mr W. J. Poison, M.P., has resigned from the State Advances Board. Mr E. H. Lough. (Dunedin) is staying at Warner’s Hotel. Mr J. Farr has been appointed deputy registrar of marriages, births and deaths at Ashburton. The Hon T. K. Sidey. Leader of the Legislative Council, was in Christchurch yesterday. Mr Rudall Hayward has arrived in this city to commence operations with the production of the film, “ A Daughter of Christchurch.” Mr O. F. Nelson, formerly of Samoa, has been spending some weeks in Sydney. He will arrive in Auckland by the Niagara to-day. Captain 'M. Buckley, of the New Zealand Permanent Air Force, returned to Christchurch by aeroplane from the North Island yesterday afternoon. Mr T. W. Tothill, of the teaching staff of Christ’s College, was a passenger by Saturday night’s ferry steamer for Wellington, en route to England, where he will spend about twelve months. Mr A. L. Tonnoir, of the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, arrived in Christchurch yesterday. He left by the night express for Dunedin. After spending a few days there, he will return to Nelson by motor. Sir Charles Statham, Speaker of the House of Representatives, was in Christchurch yesterday. He laid the foundation stone of the new wing of the Cathedral Grammar School yesterday afternoon, and was presented with a silver trowel to mark the occasion by Mr R. H. Norton, the contractor.

Mr Horace N. Cornish, of North Beach, who was a sergeant in the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces at the front, 1914-18* has received from Squad-ron-Leader C. E. Kingsford Smith and Flight-Lieutenant C. T. P. Ulm a letter and a photograph of the aeroplane “ Southern Cross ” leaving Richmond Aerodrome for New Zealand on September 10. Both the Tasman flyers send their best wishes to all their

Christchurch friends. Mr Cornish knew Kingsford Smith at the front in 1915. On Friday morning Mr C. L. Allen, a member of the teaching staff of the School for the Deaf, was met by the combined staffs of the institution at morning tea on the occasion of his approaching marriage. Mr J. M. B. Crawford conveyed the good wishes of the members of the staff and asked the guest to accept a handsome salad bowl and service. The recipient suitably acknowledged the gifts and thanked those present for their kind expressions for his future success and happiness.