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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18937, 6 December 1929, Page 8

PERSONAL

VICEREGAL. Their Excellencies the Governor-Gen* eral and Lady Alice Fergusson will leave Wellington to-morrow night for Invercargill, where they will attend the annual show of the Royal (New Zealand) Agricultural Society, leaving on December 12 for a four days’ stay at Dunedin. Oamaru and Tiiparu will be visited on December 17 and 18, and their Excellencies will arrive at Wellington on December 20, remaining until the 29th, when they will travel to Auckland for a final visit. Leaving Auckland on the evening of January 5, their Excellencies will return to Wellington, and during the second week in January will go to Christchurch and Dunedin, spending a day in each city. From January 17 until February 1, the date of their departure from the Dominion, their Excellencies will be at Wellington. Professor Macmillan Brown arrived from the north this morning. Mr H. D. Acland arrived from the north this morning. Mr A. C. Bretherton returned from a business trip to Auckland yesterday. Prdfessor E. Percival, Canterbury College, returned last evening from the West Coast. Messrs Arthur Barrow (Wellington) and C. H. Trollope (Sydney) are guests at the United Service Hotel. Mr A. T. Donnelly, Crown Prosecutor, who has been in Dunedin, returns to Christchurch to-day. Mr W. G. Morrison, Officer in Charge of the State Forest Service (Christchurch), left for Hanmer yesterday. lie is expected to return tomorrow. Mr F>. G. Gibbs, of Nelson, who is shortly leaving for a trip to the United Kingdom, has been nominated by tfie Nelson Chamber of Commerce as a delegate to the congress of the Empire Chambers of Commerce to be held in London next May.

The Hon W. H. Triggs, M.L.C., who has been-on a tour abroad, was a passenger from the north on this morning’s ferry steamer. Messrs J. E. Brooks (London), L. Howard Morton (Auckland), Clyde Carr, M.P. (TimaruK, and Dr P. M’Evedy (Wellington) are staying at Warner’s Hotel. The Rev J. Lawson Robinson, B .A. after ten years’ successful ministry at First Church, Invercargill, has accepted a unanimous call to the pastorate of St Andrew’s Church, Christchurch. Mr Robinson Is the third son of Mr R. H. Robinson, of Omahu Road, Remuera. At a, meeting of the Navy League last evening it was decided to send a letter of congratulation to the Hoi* T. M. Wilford bn his appointment a* High Commissioner for the Dominion Mr M. T. H. Foster said that Mr Wilford had been a keen supporter of the Navy League and had been the publisher of a useful booklet on the Singa pore base. The chairman, Mr J. F. Studholme, supported Mr Foster’s re marks. The appointment is announced of Mr Edward William Kane, Clerk of the House of Representatives, to tlge position of Clerk of Parliaments and Clerk of the Legislative Council, in succession to the late Mr A. F. Lowe Mr Kane, who was born in Wellington is the son of the late Mr Henry Russell Kane. After studying law for a while he joined the Parliamentary staff in 1886 and occupied various positions in the Legislation Department until he was appointed Clerk of the House of Representatives in 1920, following the appointment of the late Mr Lowe as Clerk of Parliaments. Mr Harry P. Muller has been appointed general manager for New Zealand for J. C. Williamson, Ltd., in succession to the late Mr Bert Royle. Mr Muller has been connected with J. C. Williamson, Ltd., for a number of years, latterly as representative in San Francisco. Mr Muller is an old Palmerstonian, where he went to school, and was managing clerk in a legal office. After studying law for six years, he was attracted to the theatrical profession, in which he had always taken a deep interest, and became manager of the Old Theatre Royal in Palmerston. He was associated with John Fuller and Sons for a number of years, and then joined the Williamson organisation. Mr and Mrs Muller recently returned from San Francisco, and are looking forward to again settling in their own country.