PERSONAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19816, 21 February 1936, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr R. Ellison, of London, is a visitor to Hamilton. Mr E. Beynon Jones, of Sydney, is at the Hamilton Hotel. Mr F. W. Doidge, of Auckland, will leave by the Mariposa to-day on a visit to Sydney and Melbourne. Mr D. J. Ward, of the staff of the Hamilton branch of the Bank of Australasia, has received notice of his transfer to Te Kuiti. General Sir Cyril Norman Mac Mullen arrived at Sydney to-day from England, en route to New Zealand for a fishing holiday. Mr K. V. Hallidav, chairman of the Hamilton Rowing Club committee, will leave for Wellington this evening to attend the New Zealand rowing championships. Mr W. V. St. George, secretary of the Hamilton Regatta Committee, will leave for Wellington this evening to be present at the New Zealand rowing championship regatta. Messrs R. S. Meppand, P. Williams, G. Reid, J. P. Blair, J. B. Danks (Auckland), W. G. Winchome, C. W. Smith (Wellington) and A. R Standrlii (New Plymouth) are at the Hamilton Hotel. The Rev. D. C. Alley, Methodist 1 minister at Wairoa, has been appointed by the Metiiodist conference to the mission Celd iin the Solomon Islands. He will leave in April. Mr F. H. Guinness, superintendent of mails at the General Post Office, Wellington, is retiring after 40 years' service in the Post, and Telegraph Department. He will reside in Auckland. The Rev. Father Basil Blake, S.M., of St. Bede’s College, Christchurch, has been selected to go to Oxford to further li is studies. Father Blake was appointed to liie staff of St. Bede's in 1929. He will leave New Zealand in August. Dr. A. T. Howie, who has been in charge of the New Zealand Presbyterian Mission hospital at Kong Gliuen, Canton, for the post four years, has been ordered to return to New Zealand immediately on account of his health. The president of the New Zealand Alliance of Labour and the Waterside Workers’ Federation. Mr L. Glover, has been nominated for selection as the non-Government candidate to attend the International Labour Conference in Geneva. However, he has decided not to contest the election in view of pending amendments in industrial legislation and the reorganising activities of the Alliance of Labour.