PERSONAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18875, 20 February 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr Justice Smith arrived in Hamilton to-day from Auckland and will preside at the Supreme Court sessions opening here to-morrow.

Mr A. Fleming, of London, Is at the Ham\on Hotel.

Mr Lewis Gasson, the well-known London actor-producer, is visiting Hamilton.

Mr A. E. Manning left to-day to attend the conference of the New Zealand Newspaper Proprietors’ Association at Rotorua.

Messrs F. A. Garry and C. Robertson have been elected members for the North Island on the Teachers’ Superannuation Board.

Messrs G. Watson and J. Taylor, of Los Angeles, United States, are at the Hamilton Hotel.

Mr John Farrell, of the J. C. Williamson managerial staff, is in Hamilton with Dame Sybil Thorndike’s dramatic company.

■Mr C. M. Hume, supervisor of the Dominion Group Herd Testing Federation, has returned to Hamilton from Taranaki.

Dr. 11. R. Tracy Inglis lias been elected First Grand Principal of the Royal Arch Order of Freemasonary m New Zealand.

Hamilton Hotel guests include Messrs G. A. Davis (Dunedin), W. W. Kaye, W. A. Phillips, 11. Giiilllan, Rev. T. V. Giiilllan (Auckland), W. S. Garter (Palmer’ton North), and M. Neville (New Plymouth).

Mr Herbert Sutcliffe, a member of I lie M cricket team, will arrive in New Zealand about March J'i. He will proceed to Gisborne, where lie will remain until be joins the team on ils arrival in Wellinglon on March -•).

Mr ,1. 11. Luxfnrd (formerly of Hamilton), Chief Judge of Samoa, arid Mr A. G. Turnbull, secretary of the Administration, are on the Maui Pomare, which is due at Lyttelton to-day. They are on two months’ furlough.

Sir Charles iKingsford Smith rclirned tu Wellington by the Makura |n-day. lie will go lo Palmerston North in a da> or I wo, and will probably lake Iht' Soul hern 'Gross on a trial (light, mi Friday. LUG A I,— GG

The Methodist Conference has granted permission to the Rev. \V. A. Sinclair, foreign mission secretary, to retire from that position. The Rev. A. 11. Serivin was unanimously appointed his successor. Mr Serivin has had 18 years of active experience in the mission held.