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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 91, 11 January 1935, Page 8

PERSONAL

Vice-Regal. The Governor-General, Lord Biedisloe and Lady Bledisloe left Auckland for’ Tokaanu yesterday. They will fish at Tokaanu and then proceed to Rotorua. They will leave Rotorua for Wellington on January 18. Ministerial. The Hon. S. G. Smith, Minister of Education, left Wellington last evening for Auckland. He returns to the capital on Tuesday, travelling by way of New Plymouth. • Mr. JI. J. Savage, Leader of the Opposition, has returned to Auckland from Wellington. Commander 11. L. Howden, of the Australian Navy, who has been on furlough in Wellington, left for Sydney by the Monowai yesterday afternoon. Mr. A. J. O’Brien, of the firm of Messrs. M. O’Brien and Company, Ltd., Christchurch, has left on a .visit to Australia.

General Sir Alexander Godley and Lady Godley will be given a civic welcome at the Christchurch City Council chambers on Thursday next. Sir Henry Fowler, of Derby, England, chairman of the Noise Abatement Commission, who has been visiting Wellington, left yesterday for the south.

Mr. C. F. Garratt, treasurer to the Auckland Harbour Board, has been visiting Wellington on business in connection with the board’s loan conversion.

Mr. J. W. Mawson, formerly director of town planning, will leave Wellington on January 23 to take charge of some important town-planning works in Central Europe for bis London firm. Sir John Randle, honorary president of the luternational Parliamentary Commercial Conference, is a passenger by the Remuera, which will arrive at Wellington from London on January 19. • Mr. S. C. Rowland has been appointed assistant secretary by the Canterbury Education Board in place of Mr. L. E. Rowley, who has taken Mr. C. R. Kirk’s office as secretary of the board. Mr. Kirk retired at the end of December.

Mr. C. W. Collins, librarian at Canterbury University College, who has been seriously ill with rheumatic .fever ip hospital in Geraldine for more 'than a fortnight, was reported recently to be recovering slowly, but it was still uncertain when he would be able to be taken to his home at Clifton.

Dr. P. Marshall, of Wellington, left yesterday by the Monowal to attend the congress of the Association for the Advancement of Science in Australia and New Zealand, which is to be held in Melbourne. Dr. Marshall will be one of the two public lecturers during the congress. Mr. J. G. D. Ward, LL.B., of Christchurch, who arrived in Wellington on Wednesday, left for Sydney yesterday afternoon by the Monowal. At Sydney he will join ’ the Port Fairy for England, where he will enter a shipping office to continue his studies in maritime law. He expects to be away for more than a year. Dr. E. Kidson, Director of Meteorological Services, left Wellington for Sydney by the Monowai yesterday afternoon to attend the congress of the Association for the Advancement of Science in Australia and New Zealand. He will return to Wellington at the end of the month. Mr. D. G. Sullivan, M.P., Mayor of Christchurch, who has returned from his holiday in the North Island, has not yet recovered from the effects of ins accident at Carterton, when three ribs were broken. He will not be able to undertake the full duties of the t.'iayoral office for some time.

Mr. R. T. Garrett, a director of Messrs. Anderson, Green and Co., man agerss of the Orient Steam Navigation Company, and a member of the Port of London Authority, arrived in Wellington from Lyttelton by yesterday’s steamer express, and left by the Monowai iu the afternoon for Sydney, en route to London.

Mr. J. Patterson, of Wellington, returned yesterday from the south. Mr. J. E. Farrell, of Oamaru, arrived in Wellington from Lyttelton yesterday.

Mr. W.’W. Duff, of Wellington, manager of R.K.0.-Radio Pictures, has been visiting Christchurch.

Captain J. J. Cameron, who retired five and a half'years ago from the command of the New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Remuera, since when lie has been living at ills home in London. is at. present visiting Wellington. Captain Cameron was more than 40 years at sea, and was particularly wellknown on the Now Zealand coast, having served iu the New Zealand company for 34 years. His first voyage to New Zealand was made iu the sailing ship Zuleika, which was subsequently lost in Pallisor Bay. l{ o commanded the Remuera for ten years. He will stay in Wellington for tlie next fortnight, and then go to Dunedin, leaving New Zealand for England by the Rangitiki on March 15.