Personal Items.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18217, 30 October 1924, Page 8

Personal Items.

A Ixmdon <•ablegvam announces thai Sir Charles Fcrgusson's staff includes Captain L. P. Haviland (military secrexuul Mr T. E. I. Little (private secretary'). Captain Yemen Wcntworth will probably ho aide-de-camp to the, new Governor-General.

Messrs C. A. Burgess (Waaeamii) and J. A. Parker (Bradford, England) are til Warner's Hotel.

Messrs "\V. Willmott (Sydney) and A. T. W'allis 'Dunedin) nro at tho Clarendon Hotel.

Mr R. Ivan Lamb, of North Brighton, who underwent an operation in Rawhiti Private Hospital, is. now making good progress towards recovery. Kocent. iirriva.ls at the United gervu-o Hotel include Mr J. L. McKeuzio <"\\e - linqtoij), H. F. "Wright (Auckland), and W. V. Harley <,Nelson). Mr Frank Thompson, General Manager of the tramways, who has been on a visit to Dunediu, returned on Tuesday oveuing.

Mr T. 1). Burnett, member for Temuka, who attended Parliament lafet week after a long illness, has been compelled to return home again for the remainder of the session.

Messrs H. J. Constable and M. J. Williams, of the literary staff of the "Ashburton Mail and Guardian," leave Ashburton for South Africa shortly, both having accepted positions at Johannesburg.

Mr E. H. HUey. General Manager of Railways from 1913 to 1919, has arrived in Wellington from London on private business. He is to investigate proposals on behalf of Cammell, Laird and Co.

Messrs W. Maehin (president), Norton Francis (vice-president), naid) Stronach Paterson (ex-jpresident of tho Canterbury Chamber of Commerce) called on the members of tho Railway Commission, Sir £>am Fay and Sir Y incent Raven, yesterday morning and had an interesting chat with tho experts.

Cr. W. H. Winsor considers that he needs a rest, and consequently his name will not appear on the ballot paper at the next City Council election. He stated yesterday that he had had fourteen years of work on the Sprcydon Borough Council and the City Council, and he thought it was time that someone else "had a go" as chairman of the Works Committee.

The Rev. A. T. Thompson, general secretary for Austrfiia of the British* and Foreign Bible Society, arrived in Christchurch from the north yesterdav to meet the Rev. D. Calder, who will succeed him a.s New Zealand agent of the Society. Mr Thompson will leavo for Timaru to-morrow for a final ivisit to the South-Canterbury branches, and will be back a-pain in Christchurch in about a fortnight. Mr J. I>. Bruce, superintendent of experimental farms, is retiring from the Government service (telegraphs our Wellington correspondent). He is an Aberdeenshire man, who was educated at Ba.nff Academy. He entered the Department of Agriculture in 1891, and was promoted inspector in charge of the Otagio district in 1904. with his headquarters in Dunedin. In 1909 he was transferred to Wellington as assistant director of the live Stock Division. Throughout his long connexion with the Department Mr Bruce has become one of its most prominent officers. Mr Bruce will not actually relinquish all agricultural work, for on his retirement from the Department he -will devote his time to. tho airricultural activities of the Board _of Health, as advisory officer, and will take over the supervision of the farms owned and controlled by the Justice Dopnrtment.