PERSONAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19661, 22 August 1935, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Viscount Bledisloe, formerly Gover-nor-General of New Zealand, and Sir Clutha Mackenzie,- director of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, were elected life members of the Auckland Institute and Museum at a meeting of the council yesterday. Sir Alexander Young, Minister of Internal Affairs, passed through Hamilton to-day with the Japanese Goodwill Mission en route from Auckland to Rotorua. The Rt. Rev. C. A. Cherrington, Bishop of Waikato, confirmed prepared candidates at St. Mary’s Church. New Plymouth, last night. To-morrow he will attend the institution of the new vicar at Waitara. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr M. J. Savage, was in Hamilton to-day. He left later this afternoon for Cambridge. Mr 'T. P. Geaney, Waikato organiser for the Nationalist Party, is in Hamilton. Mr J. M. Bertram, Auckland Rhodes Scholar for 1931, has -gained a second in the Oxford Honour School of Modern Languages, in German and French. Admiral Sir Roger Backhouse, formerly second in command of the Mediterranean Fleet, will succeed the Earl of Cork and Orrey as Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet to-day. Mr A. C. Dimmock, of Hugh Wrights Limited, has received notice of transfer to the firm’s he-' 1 office in Auck-' land and will shortly leave to take up his new position. Professor Shelley, of Canterbury University College, is acting as adjudicator at the drama festival of the Manawatu area of the British Drama League, now being held at Palmerston North. Mr T. H. McCombs, the recentlyelected member for Lyttelton, is at present on a pre-sessional speechmaking tour of North Otago and South Canterbury in the interests of the Labour Parly. Mr F. 51. B. Fisher, who was Minister of Customs in the Reform Ministry from 1912 to 1915, and who has been resident in England for many years, is now in Australia, and intends shortly to revisit New Zealand. Canon C. V. Pilcher, professor of Old Testament literature at Wyckliffe College, Toronto, who has been visiting Australia, arrived at. Wellington on Monday, and will leave Auckland by the Niagara to-day for Vancouver. Mr H. Holland, M.P. for Christchurch North, who was recently injured by a fall, is making good progress in hospital, but will probably not he able to take his seat in Parliament until the latter part of the coining session. Dr. Roland Wilson, of Canberra, an economist attached to the Australian Federal Treasury, arrived at Wellington from Sydney on Monday and will leave Auckland by the Niagara to-day, lo attend a statisticians’ conference in Canada.

Dr. A. V. Walkom, of Sydney, who is honorary general secretary of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, is expected lo arrived at Auckland on September ■’! lo assist in making arrangements for the conference of the association to bo held here in January, 10117.

The appointment of Mr A. A. Baker as chairman of the management committee of the Auckland Rugby Union, in succession to Mr A. St. C. Belcher,' who has been transferred to Hamilton, was made at last evening’s meeting. Mr K. V. Sutherland was appointed vice-chairman, and Mr S. Clea] was appointed to fill the vacancy on the committee.