PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 146, 16 March 1939, Page 8

PERSONAL

Ministerial. The Hon. W. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs, is expected to return to Wellington from the South Island tomorrow. The Hon. H. G. R. Mason, AttorneyGeneral, returned to Wellington from the South Island by aeroplane yesterday. Sir Lindo Ferguson arrived at Wellington from Dunedin yesterday to attend a meeting of the Board of Health. Mr. A. E. Poll returned to Wellington yesterday from the South Island. Mr. St. Clair Ferguson returned to Dunedin from Wellington last night by the steamer express. Mr. J. A. Redpath returned to Christchurch, last night after a short visit to Wellington. Mr. J. H. Buckland, Wellington, travelled north by the Limited express last night. Mr. A. L. Wall, Wellington was a passenger for Christchurch by air yesterday.

Councillor R. L. McCalister has been nominated to represent the Wellington City Council on the proposed National Park Board for Marlborough Sounds. Mr. G. R. Ritchie, a director of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Ltd., returned to Dunedin last night by the steamer express. Mr. K. E. Luke, Wellington city engineer, this week completed his thirtysecond year as an employee of the Wellington City Corporation. Mr. C. S. Tuuey, president of the Canterbury Builders’ Association, arrived from the south yesterday to attend the conference of Allied Building Trades in 'Wellington. Mr. L. S. Alsweiler, Invercargill, who has been on a business visit to Wellington, returned south last night by the steamer express. Mr. A. Holmes Warren, Rawahi, Wairarapa, a well-known breeder of Romney sheep, is visiting Christchurch. He is an old boy of Christ’s College. Mr. R. M. Algie, organizer of the Auckland Provincial Freedom Association, paid a brief visit to Wellington yesterday and returned north by air. Mr. W. A. Hislop, general manager for New Zealand of Universal Pictures Pty., Ltd., returned to Wellington yesterday from Auckland.

Mr. G. J. Bertinshaw, chief engineer of tlie Railways Department, returned to Wellington from the South Island yesterday.

Captain F. Holmes Edge, wharf superintendent in Lyttelton for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Ltd., is visiting Wellington, Mr. W. W. Mulholland, Dominion president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, was an arrival at Wellington yesterday from the south. Commodore J. W. Rlvett-Caruae, officer commanding the New Zealand Squadron of the Royal Navy, was a passenger from Auckland by the Limited express yesterday. Mr. W. Dearden Jackson, the London pianist and bassoonist, who lived in Wellington for about 12 months, has left New Zealand to settle in Adelaide, where he lias been given an orchestral appointment. .Mr. S. V. Plnysted, Victoria, accompanied by ids wife and family, arrived ut Masterton on Wednesday to take over tlie position of manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia’s Masterton branch

.Mr. W. F. Bull, Canadian Trade Commissioner, who visited Wellington to attend the annual meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, returned to Auckland last night by the Limited express.

Mr. W. A. R. Jones. Wellington, was hrst night elected chairman of the game committee of tlie Wellington Acclimatization Society, nt ti meeting of Hie society’s council. He succeeded Mr. C. E. Aldridge, who resigned recently before leaving Wellington to live in Chfislcbnrch.