Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18892, 6 January 1927, Page 6

Personal Items.

i 1 —-♦-" — *j Mr Montagu Laing, the Lm&£ director of Messrs Sargood, Son, U)i Bwen, Ltd., Australia, has arrived (ft Wellington from London. Sir Frank Clarke, president of fti,' Legislative Council of Victoria, was jpassenger for Wellington by the U| knra on Monday from Sydney. & Mr J. D. Gray, Secretary of th» $ ternal Affairs Department, who fik been on an official visit to Niue'lstiiJ, has returned to Wellington. \\ Mr E. P. Yaldwyn, manager of tit Commercial Bank of Australia, W-' lington, arrived in Wellington by 'lib Makura. Mr Yaldwyn ha* tafc abroad for some months. *£<■ Mr Walter Monk, accompanied -fef' Mrs Monk, arrived from Wellmfltta ' yesterday to arrange for the natt<ft > C. Williamson attraction, Maura Moscovitch, opening on January 15th. ; Captain A. W. Pearse, Now Zealtlad 1 - and Australian representative for til 7 Port of London Authority, arrived it/ Wellington by the Makura, and w&a spepd a month in New Mr J. 0. Irons, manager wt WJ\ Canadian-Australasian Royal Msfe Line in Vancouver, arrived at kvtibj land by the Aorangi on a holiday Tiflj,' to the Dominion. '"'" : \£ Messrs H. G. Young (US.A.) 's> Johnson (Melbourne), H. T. JUtUM (Hui Hui), H. R. Duncan and K. m, Duncan (Nelson), and 0. IV. MaeM tosh (Wellington) aro staying at Wa*3 ner's Hotel. jfUr Messrs G. J. Herdman (AuekkmdVf P. Fraser, A. Smith, B. Dell. W. "M Foster (Wellington), S. Clongh (Dun* edin), and "W. C. Smith (AshbttrtoiyJ. are among the guests at the 01w»j?f don Hotel. ~J§ Among the guests at the United^ Service Hotel are Messrs A. E. 'teousff den (Petone), C. E. Leighton (Bydn«M . A. T. Dyer (England), W, L. 0. MSf Lean (Hawke's Bay), 11. B. Bell. &£{ Shallcrass. G. P. Chapman. ». Jm Temple (Timaru), and G. E. Mald(A| (Marton). jj§f Mr A. A. Daviesj of Cassoll and,Comf| pany, London, and Mr C. StrtSt, '«j| Thomas Nelson and Sons, Edinburgh® left Wellington by the Limited «*$ press on Tuesday to be present at tbfe sixth annual conference of the tfri| Zealand Retail Booksellers' AssocUttfe; to be held in Auckland. 'm Mr £. J. Gravestock, the welWJuww| entrepreneur, arrived at WelliflflMa from Sydney by the Maungaoui i&ttsjj| to make arrangements for the t°rrW coming tours of Miss Phyllis Lett, tt#, great English contralto, who «l| mences at the Wellington Town ftyjjsj on February sth next, and Mr AJ*|| ander Watson, the distinguished B«| iish platform celebrity, who is das^g the Dominion in July next. 10 Mr J. Robertson, who has served Ip the past sixteen years in the ,^% Education District as ImpscWr m Schools, has been promoted to th» pss| tion of Senior Inspector to the SrtW laud Education Board in place ofJjS D. H. Strochan, who has besn trite ferred to Wellington. Mr Rebttti% served for throe years and a halfjWft; seas with the New Zealand Mowgf. Division in Egypt and Palestine **§% December, 1918, was appointed Mg| ant Director of Education to ths Zealand Mounted Rifles, with tbt fjm of major. He was responsible {&§!& organisation of a scheme for rar ™s§S'; the education of the New troops then in Efrypt, and wnoWlM a series of schools for them until tfjWf 1019. M