PERSONAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17917, 13 January 1930, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr F. Lye, M.P., left last night for Wellington oh Parliamentary business.

Mr E. Branscombe is in Hamilton with the Westminster Glee Singers.

Sir Benjamin Fuller arrived at Auckland, by the Aorangi from Sydney this morning.

Messrs Geo. Gutry and Frank Penn left Cambridge on Saturday on a trip to Wellington.

IRev. Athol R. Penn, who had been spending a holiday at Cambridge, has returned to Dunedin.

Mr S. C. G. Lye and family, of Newstead, have returned from three weeks’ vacation fit St. llelier’s, Auckland.

Included on the Hamilton Hotel register are Messrs D. Harper (Timaru), A. Tynan (New Plymouth), A. C Hammond (Wellington), c. 'Wing and A. K. Jackson (Auckland).

The Geological Society has awarded the Lyell Medal to Mr Frederick Chapman, the Australian palaeontologist.

Mr O. C. Mazengarb, a well-known Wellington solicitor, will leave Wellington next month for Sydney, where he will join the Otranto for a tour in Palestine and Europe.

Mr. J. T Grose, general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand, who lias been visiting London on bank business, is a passenger by the new motorship Rangitanc, due at Wellington on January 24.'

The Secretary for the Colonies, Lord Passfield, has appointed Dr. Drummond Sliicls, Parliamentary Un-dcr-Sccrelai’y for the Colonies, to succeed Mr William Lunn as chairman of the Advisory Council of Agriculture, and of the Colonial Medical Research Committee.

Viscount Craigavon and Viscouip tess Craigavon arrived in Dunedin on Saturday. In llie afternoon Viscount Craigavon was entertained at a civic luncheon and Viscountess Craigavon was the guest of the Otago Women's Club. The visitors left for Invercargill in the afternoon. 'Next week will be spent in a tour of the Lakes DisJt’ip.L,