PERSONAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18623, 29 April 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL.

His Excellency the GovernorGeneral has been appointed patron of the Wellington Orphans’ Club. Mr H. F. Wood has been elected president, and Mr Douglas Stark secretary. Captain G. F. James, of Shanghai, was a visitor to Hamilton yesterday.

Messrs F. Tout and J. 0. Meeks have been re-elected directors of the Australian Mutual Provident Society.

Viscount Monck, who has been on a short visit to New' Zealand, left Auckland for Sydney to-day.

Messrs F. Hobbs and F. W. Avery, of Melbourne, are at the Hamilton Hotel.

Mr Sydney Pascall, Chief Rotarlan, sailed "by the Aorangl from Sydney yesterday for Auckland. He is accompanied by his wife.

Mr J. H. Mostyn, of Sydney, business manager for Mr Norman Smith, returned to Australia by the Zealandia to-day.

Sir Bernard Bourdlllon, Chief Secretary, Ceylon, has been appointed Governor and Commander-In-Chief of Uganda in succession to Sir William Gowers.

/ Sir Lennon Raw's, director of Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand, Limited, is a passenger by the Aorangl, which left Sydney for Auckland yesterday.

Mr C. Alma Baker, of the Federated Malay States, who has been on a holiday visit to New Zealand for fishing, left Auckland for Sydney by the Zealandia to-day.

Mr R. 11. Webber, for some time manager of the Albert Hotel, Auckland, left Auckland •by the Ventura to-day to join tlie Mongolia at Sydney or an extended trip abroad.

Mr Charles ['order, who lives with his daughter in Christchurch, celebrated his one hundred and first birthday on Wednesday.

After 45 years’ service with the Union Bank of Australia, Limited, Mr \V. H. Lunn, manager of the Auckland branch, will retire in about a month, lie will be succeeded by Mr N. A. Hepburn, now' of Warrambool, Victoria*

Messrs J. Flynn (Bulls), R. 11. Webster, A. E. Hutchinson (Wellington), J. F. Bailey (Tauranga), G. F. Keene, K. D. Mackay (Auckland), and W. T. Royal (Palmerston North) are at the Hamilton Hotel.

Rev. Lionel B. Fletcher, retiring minister of the Beresford Street Congregational Church, left Auckland for Wellington last evening, on an eight months’ evangelical tour. Mr Fletcher will afterwards, leave for England to take up a position as Empire evangelist, under the World Evangelisation Trust, of London.

The following officers were elected at the annual meeting of the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association: —President. General Sir George Richardson: vice-presidents, Messrs A. 0. A. Sexton. T. 11. Dawson and .1. W. Kendall; hen. treasurer, Mr T. S. Miller; hon. auditor, Mr R. N. S. Chisholm.