PERSONAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17918, 14 January 1930, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr. S. White, of South Australia, is at the Empire Hotel.

Mr. H. S. S. Kyle, M.P. for Riccarton, who was staying at the Empire Hotel, left for Rotorua to-day. ■

Staying at the Empire Hotel are Messrs G. H. Jupp, C. Dunn (Dunedin), A. E. Hancock (Nelson), R. Blackman, «p,. G. Joyce and R. R. Holmes (Auckland).

Mr Robert Bell,, of Christchurch, chairman of the World’s Press Congress, returned toy the Aorangi yesterday from a 12 months’ visit to North America and Europe.

At the Hamilton Hotel are Messrs \V. Goodfellow, W. Alexander, and Noel Gibson (Auckland) J. C. Brown (Wellington), and G. Pickthall (Ceylon).

'The chairman of directors of the Yorkshire Insurance Company, Sir James Hamilton, of York, who arrived at Auckland from Sydney yesterday by the Aorangi, is revisiting New Zealand after an interval of nine years.

Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, and Viscountess Craigavon, arrived in Invercargill on Saturday evening. They were given a civic reception and entertained; by Ulstermen of the district. The visitors yesterday were taken on a tour of the western district. They left Invercargill for Queenstown yesterday morning.

The Rev. Father Edge, of Tc Awamutu, who left New Zealand in July last and visited Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Durban, Capetown, Teneriffe, England, Algiers, Italy, Colombo, Sumatra, Java and back to Australia, returned to Auckland by the Aorangi yesterday. While in 'England he attended the big Catholic Congress and other functions. “I have found travelling very strenuous,” said Father Edge, ‘‘and kept as much as possible to the sea.”