PERSONAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18947, 17 May 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr J. B. Moran, of Sydney, Is at the Hamilton Hotel.

Mr T. B. Clay has been elected chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board. *

• The Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health, left for Wellington last evening.

Messrs: L. Webber and Y. G. Boulton, of Cambridge, are spending a few days in New Plymouth.

The resignation of the clerk, Mr H. B. Moore, owing to ill-health, was received at a meeting, of the Warkworth Town Board.

Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., who has been one of the Commissioners at Napier, will resume magisterial duties at Wellington to-morrow.

Mr W. Russell-Wood has been appointed adjudicator in the elocution ■section at the Dunedin competitions, to be held In August.

Sir Eric Phipps, British Minister at Vienna, has been appointed Ambassador to Germany in succession to Sir Horace Rumbold, who is retiring. Si’.’ Eric, who is 59 years of age, has had a distinguished record in diplomatic positions.

Advice has been received from London that Mr W. T. Tathain has been appointed a director of New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, to fill the vacancy on the board created by the death of Mr A. F. Wood. ...

Mr. F. N. Ambler and Mr. A. Rowlands will represent the Auckland Chamber of Commerce at the congress of the Federation of Chambei’3 of Commerce of the British Empire, which will open in London in July.

The Hon. A. Hamilton, Minister of Employment, arrived at Auckland from Dargavllle last evening after a shO!»t official visit to the North Auckland district. He will leavo for Wellington this evening.

Hamilton Hotel guests include Messrs E. McKechnle, W. Alexander, W. Aldred, F. Aldred, A. Franklin, A. E. Hutchinson, A. Harrison (Auckland), C. Hodgkins (Masterton), B. Mitchell, L. K. Andrews (Palmerston North), K. Carriole (Christchurch), H. V. Smith (Dunedin), W. Blake and A. R. Christian (Wellington).

Mr Willy Appleton, who left Wellington by the Maunganui yesterday on an extended trip to the United States and Europe, will Connect with the tourist ship Virginia at San Francisco for New York, via Los Angeles, Panama and Havana. After visiting Washington, Philadelphia and some of I,lie other American cities, he will sail for England by the Majestic from New York on June 30.

Dr. C. M. Foclccn, who has been awarded a scholarship at the Colorado School of Mines, is lecturer in physics at Otago University. He graduated in New Zealand and then went to Melbourne University: The scholarship has been awarded to Dr. Focken, under llie Commonwealth Fund Fellowship, a New York philanthropic foundation. existing since 1918 and supported by gifts from the late Mrs Stephen V. Darkness. . '