PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 8

PERSONAL

Vice-Regal. The following were the guests of their Excellencies the Governor-Gen-eral and Lady Galway at luncheon at Government House yesterday: —MajorGeneral Sir Andrew Russell, Mr. H. D. Acland (Christchurch, Miss I. Wilson, Miss M. and Miss 13. Richmond. At Government House yesterday afternoon his Excellency presided at a meeting of the New Zealand Central Board of Selection Colonial Appointments Committee. The following were the guests of their Excellencies at dinner at Government House last evening: The Hon. P. Fraser and Mrs. Fraser, Sir Harry Batterbee and Lady Batterbee, the Rt. Hon. the Chief Justice and Lady Myers, the Hon. Sir Hubert Ostler and Lady Ostler, Major-General J. E. Duigan, Commodore H. E. Horan and Mrs. Horan, Group Captain H. W. L. Sanatiers and Mrs. Saunders, Sir Donald McGavin and Lady McGavin, Sir James Elliott and Lady Elliott, the mayor of Wellington, Mr. Hislop, Mr. A. G. C. Deuber and Mrs. Deuber, Mr. G. E. Boyd-Shannon, Miss I. Biggar. Ministerial. The Hon. F. Langstone, Minister of Lands, will return to Wellington from Rotorua today.

The Hon. R. Semple, Minister of Public Works, will leave Wellington tonight for Christchurch and Dunedin on official business. He will also make an inspection of the Homer Tunnel work. He is to open the new traffic bridge across the Rakaia River tomorrow week, and on the following Monday will visit Westport to attend a demonstration. of land-clearing machinery to be held on the West Coast on March 28. He expects to return to Wellington on the evening of March 29.

Mr. W. P. Endean, M.P., arrived at Wellington from the north yesterday.

Mr. H. T. Speight, Dunedin, was a passenger for the south by the steamer express last night. Mr. A. *T. Donnelly, Christchurch, Who has been visiting Wellington, returned south last night. Messrs. C. Milner, A. Rowling and C. F. Skinner have been appointed members of the Cawthron Trust Board.

Mr. C. M. Turrell, general manager of the New Zealand Shipping. Company, left for the south by last night’s steamer express.

Mr. G. W. Hutchison, secretary of the Automobile Association (/Auckland), arrived at Wellington yesterday.

Mr. W. Wallace, Auckland, arrived at Wellington yesterday to attend a meeting of the Nurses and Midwives’ Registration Board. Mr. A, Turner, supervisor of imported fruit for the Internal Marketing Department, arrived at Wellington from Auckland yesterday. Mr. D. McGowan was given a warm welcome back to the board table of the Wellington Free Ambulance at yesterday’s meeting. The president, Sir Charles Norwood, said that every member of the board was delighted to see Mr. McGowan resuming his activities. They hoped he would soon regain his full vigour and spirit which he had always applied so generously to public duty in the past. Mr. G. Mitchell, manager of the Wellington Show Association, is seriously ill. In conveying that news to the members of the board of the Wellington Free Ambulance yesterday, the president, Sir Charles Norwood, said he had seen Mr. Mitchell On Tuesday, and a report he had received that morning was to the effect that his condition had slightly improved. He trusted that the improvement would continue. The board decided to send a letter of sympathy.

Mr N. P. G. Ewart, who recently completed 40 years’ service with the New Zealand Railways, rising to the position of chief clerk in the workshops and mechanical branch at head office, Wellington, was met by the staff of the workshops and locomotive head office and district office on the eve of his retirement, and was presented with a pair of binoculars and a travelling rug. Tributes were paid to his long record of service. A presentation was also made to Mrs. Ewart. Mr. and Mrs. Ewart have left Wellington for Australia. where they will embark for England. Before returning to New Zealand they intend to visit the United States of America.