Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19160, 17 November 1927, Page 8

Personal Items.

Guests at the United Service Hotel ore Messrs A. M. Beale (Waipiri Bay), E. C. Beale (Auckland), and R. Scott West (Sydney). Recent arrivals at the Clarenddn Hotel are Messrs E. G. Wheeler (Sydney), F. Johnston (Dunedin), and J. G. Muir (Dunedin). Cr. F. R. Cooke, who has been on a visit to England, is expected to reach Chfistchurch in time for the first meeting of -the City Council next month.

Mr Claude Kingston, concert director for Messrs J. and N. Tait, arrives by the. ferry this morning personally to supervise the Joseph Hislop concerts next week. Mr Kingston wril be at the United Service Hotel.

The Town Clerk,(Mr J. S. Neville) returned yesterday from Wellington, where he gave evidence before the Stock Committee of the Souse regarding the special order loan for improvements at the Municipal Abattoir. Mr F. T. M. Kissel, Chief Electrical Engineer, Public Works Department, arrives from Wellington this morning to attend the conference regarding the proposed Mid-Canterbury Power Board.

Captain G. S. Hooper, of the Marine Department, will represent the .New Zealand Government oil the Norwegian whaling ship, C. A. Larsen, which is leaving for the Antarctic. Captain Hooper was a passenger on the Sir James Clark Ross on the southern whaling expedition. Captain Frank Hart, R.N.E., master of the Shaw-Savill liner Oorinthic, who is now on his final voyage to New Zealand prior to his retirement after 46 years' service, was.made an honorary life member of the Wellington Eeturned Soldiers' Association in honour of his taking New Zealand troops overseas during the war. He was presented with the Association's silver badge. Mr T. C. Hobbs Jones, supervisor of Postmen at Auckland, has been promoted to bo Superintendent of Mails at Christchurch. Mr Jones is president of the Auckland Swimming Centre. Both trans-Pacific mail steamers will have new mail agents. 1 Mr W. E. Carter, traffic clerk at the G.P.0., Auckland, has been .appointed to the Marine Post Office in the and Mr M. W. W. dimming, Assistant Superintendent of the Parcels Branch, Christchurch, has been appointed to the Niagara.— Press Association.