PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 173, 18 April 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Rkgal. His Excellency the Governor-General will leave Wellington by twin at 9.12 a.m. to-day for Napier. On arrival there this evening- he will proceed straight on board the Tutanekai, in which vessel he will visit Gisborne (where 'he will stay for two days) and places of interest on the East Coast, and afterwards will journey across the Bav of Plenty. He will be joined at Waihi by Lady Jellicoe, and will then proceed north to the Bay of Islands, subsequently returning to Auckland, where he will go into residence tor the winter months.

Sir Robert Stout, chairman of the Wellington Unitarian Free Church, will represent the New Zealand Unitarian Association at the conference of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association, to be held in London. Sir William Hall-Jones, M.L.C., will leave by the Ruapehu this week on a visit to England. He expects to return in time for the main business of next session of Parliament. Dr. T. W. Leys and Mrs. Leys returned to Auckland on Friday morning by the Niagara. Last February they left for Canada, where Dr. Leys attended the Imperial Press Congress as chairman of the Dominion representatives. From there they travelled across to America, and then to England, and also visited Hie Continent. During the Press Congress in Canada Dr. Leys was one of the two delegates upon whom the M'Gill University conferred the degree of D.C.L.—Auckland “Star.” Mr. J. TV. Collins, Secretary of the Department of Industries and Commerce, is in tho South Island.

Mr. P. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, has returned to TT ellington aftei a visit to Auckland. Mr. R. TV. Dalton. British Trade Commissioner, is visiting the South Island.

Air. J. P. Maxwell left by the Manuka on a visit to Australia. Mr. TV. T. Jennings, M.P., will be entertained ait Te Kuiti by his constituents previous to his departure at the end of the month for Egypt and Gallipoli, to visit the graves of his two sons, who were killed in the late war. A Press Association message from Sydney states than’Mr. E. C. Beckett, secretary of Messrs. Birt and Company, dropped dead while playing golf.