PERSONAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19639, 27 July 1935, Page 6

PERSONAL.

The Governor-General (Lord GalWay) will visit Christchurch to perform the official opening of the Canterbury Winter Show and Exhibition on Saturday, August 10. His Excellency has consented' to allow his speech to be broadcast.

Sir Alexander Herdman, who has been on a visit to the South, travelled to Frankton by the limited express yesterday and later went to Rotorua.

Mr K. M. Graham, Commissioner of Crown Lands at Auckland, is visiting t Hamilton. v‘ - . A i.

1 Mr L. G. K. Steven and Mr El Hitchcock have been elected president and vice-president respectively Of the Christchurch Rotary Club for 1935-36. j

Sir Theophilus Metcalfe, of'r \Godalming, England, who has been on a visit to-New Zealand, wil) Rave Auckland for Honolulu by life Monterey today-; < ;/ ■'■" ' •a ■

Mr Bernard Rumsey, of ffrlsbane, 1 who has been appointed assistant to the vicar of Cambridge, the Rev. G. Chandler, arrived at Auckland'from Sydney by the Monterey to-day.

Mr C. M, Cdlllns, of'Messrs Wright,, Stephenson and Company, Ltd., Hamilton, will leave to-night for Wellington, where he will relieve for a month.

Mr E. C.' Carter, secretary-general of the Institute of Pacific Relations, who has been touring New Zealand, will leave Auckland for San Francisco to-day by the Monterey.

Messrs T. A. Jarvis (Wellington), C. H. Thomas A. P. Wedding, A. G. Montgomery, A. R. E. Messenger, W. A. Perkins and F. B. Taylor (Auckland), are at the Hamilton Hotel.

Mr J. R. Lester, of Christchurch, has been appointed judge of the elocution sections of the West Coast competitions, to be held at Greymoutff in September. „

Mr A. S. W. .Preston, who travelled through the Dominion with the Indian hockey team as the New Zealand Hookey Association’s representative, left by the limited express from Auck-' land last evening oil his 'return to Christchurch/ 'A- /, ,

Mr J. A. W. Bennett and Mr John Mulgan, formerly of Auckland University College, have obtained first-class honours in English at Oxford University. Both have been at'Merton College. jMr Bennett went to Ox-ford in ,1933 on a travelling scholarship.

According -to cabled advice, Mr Douglas. D. Porter, general secretary of the J3gypt General Mission, died in London on Thursday as *the result of a ffiotor accident.' Mr Porter toured New Zealand in 1932 and again in 1933 in. the interests of the mission, and made many friends in all parts of the Dominion, . ■■■ *'"

,Mr Brian O.’Horkc, . who was entrusted with thq whole of-the Interior decoration of the; new Orient liner Orion, is a native of Christchurch, lie took degrees in engineering and architecture at Cambridge, and has won a number of prizes awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architectsjind the Architectural Association*.

The Hon. R. Masters, Minister of' Industries and • Commerce, stated.'today that Mr L. J. Schmitt, who was recently appointed permanent head, of 'the department, had been* appointed chairman of the Wheat Purchase Board in succession to Mr Qi W. Cllnkard, who will shortly take up his duties as New Zealand trade repre; seritative in Europe.

: 'At a meeting of the Waikato Rugby Union Management Committee last evening,' it ' was decided to write to Mr A. St.G. Belcher, chairman of the Auckland Rugby Union Management Committee, congratulating him on Ills appointment as manager of the State Fire Office, Hamilton. ! - '

Mr A*. Cockburn, of Otorohanga, who. is leaving the district to take up a position with the Colonial Rubber Company, Auckland, was favowcllcd at a special social and dance and presented with a wallet aud notes by residents,! of llio district, 'lie was also the recipient of a fountain pen and pencil presented by his fcllowmembers of the Dniicls''lodge.

The assistant-director of the Horticultural Division of the Department of Agriculture;* Mr W. T. Goodwin, has been seconded for a term of duty with the Cook islands Administration, and at an early date he will take up the appointment of director of agriculture for the Cook 'lslands, with headquarters at Rarotonga. lie will exercise supervision over the other islands. He will leave Wellington for Rarotonga on September 3. ■