PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 123, 22 February 1928, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) will leave for Greymouth towards the end of the week to attend the Grey district jubilee celebrations. The Minister of Health (Hon. J. A. Young) left last night for Hamilton and Rotorua to attend the opening of the annual conference of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association. The Minister will return to Wellington on Monday. Sir Louis Barnett, who arrived in Wellington from the south yesterday morning, continued his journey north by the “Limited” express last night. Drs. H. Smith, F. T. Bowerbank, C. Begg, North, and D. E. Fenwick left We'lington yesterday for Hamilton to attend the Medical Conference there. The Hon. O. F. Nelson was a passenger by last night’s north-bound Limited express. Mr. S. S. Crick, Australian and New Zealand managing director for the Fox Film Corporation, arrived in Auckland yesterday by the Ulimaroa from Sydney. Air. Crick will come to Wellington next week, where he will probably stay for the following fortnight. Mr. E. /Armstrong, of Armstrong and Co., Christchurch, arrived from the south yesterday morning. He intends to leave for America and the Old Country in April. Air. P. James, of Dunedin, is a visitor to Wellington. Air. J. E. Henrys and Airs. Henrys arrived from the south yesterday morning. At the meeting of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers yesterday, on the motion of Air. F. W. AlcLean, Air. J. A. Paterson, late city engineer of Wellington, was made a life member of the society, in recognition of bis services in securing a valuable property in Alolesworth Street as the headquarters of the society. Air. AlcLean said it was due to Air. Paterson that the society was in such a happy position. At the animal conference of the New Zealand Society of Engineers' yesterday the election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows:—President, Air. F. E. de Guerricr (Auckland) ; vice-president, Mr. J. G. Alexander; lion, secretary, Mr. R. W. Holmes; council, Alessrs F. W. Furkert, F. T. AL Kissell, F. C. Widdop, E. A. Shrimpton, and J. Burnett. Among the visitors to Wellington at present is Mr. R. Smith, of Newcastle, fatlicr-in-law of the Rev. J. R. Blanchard, pastor oi St. John’s Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Whalley, of Melbourne, a member of the Victorian howling team now in Wellington, is a brother of the late Air. Scot Inglis, one of the finest Australian born actors the stage has known.

At the Methodist Conference at Christchurch yesterday the 'following were appointed" members of the Supernumerary Fund Hoard for 1928:—The connexional secretary, and Revs. W. Baumber, J. Guy, S. Lawry, \V. Greenslade, and Messrs. G. Bowron, A. F. Dravton, A. Borrows, I’. W. Sharpe, H. W. Ileslop, IL P. Lawry, and a mineslcr to be nominated..