PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19271, 7 January 1931, Page 3

PERSONAL.

VICE-REGAL. The Governor-General paid a visit yesterday morning to the Public Art Gallery at Dunedin, where he was met by Sir Lindo Ferguson (vice-president of the Art Gallery Society) and was taken through the building. A visit to the Batchelor Maternity Home was made later, after which his Excellency had lunch with Sir John Roberts. In the afternoon, accompanied by Ladv Bledisloe, he opened the new cottage?* at the Glendining Children’s Home. To day his Excellency visits the Town Hall, the Public Library and the Earl> Settlers’ Museum. A social evening at the Returned Soldiers’ Club is his evening engagement. Messrs G. C. Niven (Wellington), E. A. Barker and B. Caro (Hastings) are guests at the United Service Hotel Messrs G. Roberts and S. D. Paul (Wellington) are guests at Warner’s Hotel. The Very Rev Dean Holly, of Timaru, who has been on a visit to Rotorua, is now in Wellington. Mr Delwvn Grant, who has been in ; Samoa for the past three years, is visiting his parents, Mr and Mrs Ritchings Grant, of Mayfield Avenue. Air A. D. Paisley, governing director of the Goldberg Advertising Agency, who has been spending the holidays in the South Island, returned to Wellington by last night’s ferry steamer. His Honor Mr Justice MacGregor arrived in Wellington by the Maunganui from Sydney after eleven months’ absence in England and the Continent. Mrs and Miss MacGregor will remain in England for another year. Mr L. W. Austin, formerly Town Clerk of Riccarton, who has been on the Drainage Board’s clerical staff for the past year, has been appointed i Town Clerk of Patea, and left on | Monday evening to take up his new I duties. j Major Sir Henry B. de la P. Beres-ford-Pierse, D. 5.0., of London, who is visiting New Zealand in the course of a

holiday tour, arrived in Christchurch from the West Coast last evening. Sir Henry is Under-Treasurer of the Middle. Temple, London. He served with the British forces in the Boer War, was twice mentioned in despatches, and was decorated with the D.S.O. Sent by the Home Office on a tour tc investigate and report on penal sys* terns in different countries of the Empire, Mr J. L. Weldon, of the British Government, arrived at Wellington from Australia, yesterday morning. He will spend three weeks in New- Zealand before going on to America. Fie is studying particularly prison organisation and the treatment of juvenile offenders.