PERSONAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17492, 28 August 1928, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr A. Beauchamp, of Wellington, has been at ttie Commercial Hotel. Messrs P. Butts (Rotorua), J. Braid (Auckland), and R. H. Pritchard are the Commercial Hotel. Mr J. J. Sullivan, solicitor, of Auckland, is in Hamilton for the Supreme Court session. Mr Walton Turtle, representing the Intertype Corporation, Nev>' York, has been visiting Hamilton and staying at the Commercial Hotel. Messrs R. G. Armitage, H. 0. Wiles, E. R. Wood (Auckland), and F. Gray (Duncdin) axe at the Hamilton Hotel. Sir George Elliot has been elected chairman of directors of the Auckland Gas Company, Limited, in succession to Mr J. 11. Upton, who has resigned.

Mr H. L. Tapley, M.P. for Dunedin North, returned to Wellington yesterday by the Makura from San Francisco.

Messrs R. Kinley, F. L. Woodhousc (Tauranga), G. M. Beck, F. Logan, H. Douglas, J. J. Sullivan and S. F. Bell are at the Empire Hotel.

Messrs J. Monk, W. Parker, W. Woods, A. Crosslcy, and T. King are among the guests at the Brighton Hotel.

Grand Central Hotel guests include Messrs R. Cronin, W. Daish (Taranaki), J. Malleoli (Wellington), W. C. Laid, T. Card, G. Cuttlcr, and R. Duncan.

A motion of condolence with the family of the late Mr A. Noble was carried by the annual meeting of suppliers of the Norfolk Co-operative Dairy Company at Motumaoho yesterday.

Mr John Scott, Chief Secretary of the Tanganyika Territory, has been appointed Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements. He will succeed Sir Hayes Marriott. a Mr Douglas ,J. Jardine, Deputy-Chief Secretary of tlie Tanganyika Territory, will succeed Mr Scott as Chief Secretary.

The Board of Governors of Canterbury College yesterday decided to confer the title of professor emeritus upon Dr. A. W. Bickerton, who for 30 years, from 1873 to 1903, was professor of chemistry and physics at Canterbury College. Dr. Bickerton, who is 87 years of age, resides in England. The Rev. W. T. Whitley, who is well-known in Baptist Church circles throughout the world, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Makura. lie had been attending the World Baptist Congress at Toronto and remained behind to edit the congress volume, a task he had undertaken in former year 1 ;. Dr. Whitley will spend a month in New Zealand before crossing to Australia. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Austen Chamberlain, will leave Liverpool on Thursday by the liner Orcoma on his health voyage to the Western coast of North America, via the Panama Canal. lie will he absent from England about.to weeks. Lady Chamberlain and their two young children will accompany him.

Great interest is being taken in the Ngaruawahia district in the development of coal areas lying south of the Glen Massey field. The area has been thoroughly prospected and steps are being taken for the opening of (lie seams already located. The coal will be conveyed to Ngaruawahia by an aerial tramway, the final route for which is being surveyed, and the screening will be done in the town.