PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2274, 7 October 1914, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Philip Snowden, M.P., of London,accompanied by Sirs. Snowden, will visit? Wellington from' October 15 to 19. Meetings under tho auspices of the New Zealand Alliance will bo held cacli day in the Town Hall. The Chief Secretary of tho Salvation Army (Liout.-Colonel Powley) arrived in town yesterday from Aslihurst. The' Commissioner is duo at Ohristchurcli on Saturday. Among the passengers who arrived from Sydney by the Manuka yesterday were Sir Douglas and Lady Mawson, Mr. G. H. Scales (wlio has been on a visit to England) and Mr. P. W. Burbidge, an ex-Victoria College student and an Exhibition scholar, who has been studying at Cambridge University, and has come ont to recuperate his health. Sir William Vestry, Dart., liead of the Blue Star Line of steamers trading, to South Africa, and managing director of tho Cold Storage Company, Ltd., arrived in Auckland on Sunday. Sir Wil- ■ liam lias been spending some time in i Australia, wlicro the company lias starti od largo works at Port Darwin. After , visiting Rotorua, Sir William ; will 'proi bably return to London, via the United [ States. 1 Mr. John Hislop, of Dunedin, brother ' of Mr. A. R. Hislop, of Wellington, ar--1 rived from Sydney by tho Manuka yesterday. Mr. A. L. Christ-church manager for tlio Now Zealand Insurance Company, has been transferred to a similar position at Perth, Western Australia. Tho death is recorded of Mr. R. B. Shaldors, of Auckland, the founder of the Young Men's Christian Association in that city. Tho deccasod was ninety years of age. ' Mr. Meredith Atkinson, of Sydney University, with his co-secretary (Mr. D. Stewart), will visit New Zealand as representatives of the Workers' Educational Association of Australasia. Tho visitors mil arrive in Auckland about tbe middle of January, and will tour the Dominion from north to south, spending between five and seven days in each centre.