PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 191, 9 May 1940, Page 8

PERSONAL

Ministerial. The Hon. P. Fraser, Prime Minister, returned to Wellington from Auckland by aeroplane yesterday. Sir Thomas Hunter, principal of Victoria University College, left for Blenheim by air yesterday. He will be away about a week. Sir Louis Barnett, Otago district surgeon of the St John Ambulance Brigade, has been appointed surgeon-in-chief for the Dominion, in succession to Dr. C. D. Henry. The Hon. Mr. Justice O’Regan, left Wellington last night for Christchurch to preside at sittings of the Compensation Court there. The Hon. T. F. O’Byrne, M.L.C., Invercargill, who has been visiting Wellington, left for the south last night. Mr. C. M. Bothamley, Clerk of Parliaments, returned to Wellington from the South Island yesterday. Mr. S. T. Williamson, Hong Kong, has arrived at Auckland to spend several weeks in the Dominion. Mr. Edmund Anscombe, Wellington, left for Auckland by last night’s Limited express, Mr. C. M. Turrell, general manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company, Ltd., returned yesterday after a visit to the south. Mr. G. Springhall, Wellington, managing director of’ Armstrong and Springhall, Limited, has returned from his visit to Australia. Lieutenant-Colonel A. B. Williams, R.N.Z.A., Wellington, left by last night’s steamer for a brief visit to Lyttelton.

Mr. H. Roche, senior ranger for the State Forest Service at Hamner, has been transferred to a similar position at Rotorua. Mr. G. J. Burrell, lecturer in mechanical engineering at Canterbury University College, will leave shortly to take up a similar position at the University of Tasmania. Mr. C. G. White, Wellington, a director of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Limited, who travelled to Sydney on the inaugural service flight of the Tasman flyingboat Aotearoa, has returned to Wellington.

Mr. L. A. Robb, Mr. E. V. Raymont, Mr. J. J. Black and Mr. A. E. Jackson, officials of the Returned Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Imperial League of Australia, who represented the league at the Centennial Anzac Day celebrations iu Wellington, have left Auckland for Australia, accompanied by their wives. Mr. George Lancaster, headmaster of the Christchurch’ Boys’ High School, was the guest of Wellington old boys at lunch on Tuesday. The visitor remarked that an effort was being made to compile a complete register of pupils since the foundation of the school. He made o' request that old boys who had photographs of school interest covering the years before 1925 should send them to the school.