PERSONAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17466, 28 July 1928, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Major-General Sir Andrew Russell, of Hastings, is visiting Auckland.

Mr Alfred Cade, of Christchurch, is visiting Hamilton.

Mr E. d'Esterre, editor of the Auckland Weekly News, is at the Empire Hotel, Frankton.

Mr J. B. Wright, of London, arrived in Auckland yesterday, after a tour in the South.

Mr Justice Blair and his associate, Mr It. E. Tripe, left for Auckland today.

Very Rev. Dean Barnett is indisposed, and will not be able to officiate at tiie Cathedral services tomorrs<v.

A message from Seattle states that Mr Gurney Newlin, of Los Angeles, has been elected president of the American Bar Association.

Messrs C. Rogers, F. W. Phillips, and A. Dobson (Auckland) G. Fenwick (Palmerston North), and J. Mislop (Wellington) are at the Empire Hotel.

Passengers aboard the Marama, which left Sydney yesterday, include Major H. Furse, of the British Colonial Office, and Mr R. Robinson, Technical Commissioner of the British Forestry Commission.

Dr. L. C. McNickle, M. 8., Ch.B., of the Porirua Mental Hospital, has been appointed medical registrar to the Wellington Hospital with a commencing salary of £SOO a year.

Messrs James Brenil Vowles, of Te Mala, and Ameilus Bcauclerk Fyers, of Rangiriri, are Gazetted as rangers to the Auckland Acclimatisation Society.

Messrs D. T. Leighton (Henberron), C. Barton (Ngaiiape), J. Legget (New Plymouth), J. N. Anderson (Hawera), J.'Doran (Wellington), V. J. Humphreys, A. Williamson, L. McLoughlein, W. J. Thomson, P. Goulding, W. L. Robinson, A. McLean (Auckland), and A. J. Cross (Te Kowhai) arc at the Hamilton Hotel.

There was a slight improvement in the condition of Bishop Cleary yesterday, but his medical adviser has prohibited him from seeing visitors for a few days. Father Cyril Martindale, of London, who was with Bishop Cleary when the motor accident occurred near Hamilton East on Sunday, is also progressing satisfactorily, but is unable to receive visitors.

Mr W. W. Putlon, of Wellington, has been admitted as a member of the Order of St. John for devoted service to the ambulance department and its subsidiary Red Cross branch. Mr button is widely known for his gratuitous service to the sporting community.