PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 45, 16 November 1940, Page 10

PERSONAL

Vice-Regal. The Goveruor-Geueral and Lady Galwav, attended by Captain Lord Dormer, Aide-de-Camp, left Wellington by t he Limited express last evening to pay a farewell visit to Rotorua. Their Excellencies will return to Wellington on Monday morning. Ministerial. Tile Bon. 11. T. Armstrong, Minister of Health, will return Io Wellington from the south tomorrow morning. The lion. H. G. R. Mason, AttorneyGeneral, will return to Wellington from Hie north today. During the morning he will unveil the intonze plaque mid tablet in honour ot Professor 11. B. Kirk in the biology block al A ictoria Un i versi ty Col lege. Mr. S. G. Holland, ALB., loft for the south by the steamer express last night. Air. N. R. Sniallbone, Wellington, left for the south lasi; night by Hie steamer express. Mr. U. E. Robertson, slud stock manager for Wright. Stephenson mid Co., left for Auckland last night. Mr. V. A. Ward, M.L.C., returned to Wellington from the south by the steamer express yesterday. Air. 1.. A. George Ims been elected president: of Hie Wellington Drapers mid Boot: Retailers' Association. Mr. W. Simin Ims been elected Hie first honorary life member of the Wellington Drapers' and Boot Retailers’ Association.

Mr. G. L. Laurensou, oil fuel controller, who attended a meeting of the Auckland oil fuel advisory committee this week, has returned to Wellington. Dr. E. Marsden, secretary of the I)epm’l meut. of Scientific mid industrial Research, returned to Wellington from Auckland yesterday.

Air. E. 1.. Greeiismitli, M.Com., was admitted yesterday by Air. Justice Ostler as a solicitor of the Supreme Court, on the motion of Dr. Foden.

Mr. John Carter has been eleelcd representative of Hie Wellington Drapers' ami Boot Retailers’ Association on the council ot Hie Wellington ('hmuber of Commerce.

I'aplaiu (I. .1. 11. Reid, of Itoiherhmii. has been appointed area emnnmmler lor tlie Home liiiaid in Amin Canterbury. Captain Reid served witli Hie .X.Z.E.F. from 1916 to 1919.

Messrs. 11. D. Aeland, A. S. Holms mid J. Begg, members of the New Zealand Meat IToducers' Board, were passengers for Hie south by last night’s steamer express.

Mr. .1. J. Mailer, Mungaroa, was yesterday unanimously elected ehairmmi of tlie Wellington Dairy Farmers' Cooperative Association. Lid., lor t.lie coming year.

Major 1.. S. Bogers. R.A.M.C.. receiillv of Te Awamutu, Ims lieeii appointed surgical specialist to Hie York Military Hospital, the main permanent hospital of the Northern Command in Britain, Mr. Russell Laurensou, the former Wellington baritone, who has been in Dunedin for the last. 18 months, is a visitor to Wellington. Mr. Laurensou lias been engaged by the Royal Wellington Choral Union to sing the baritone solos in "The Messiaii” at the Town Hall on Saturday, December 7. He is also to sing the same music at Dunedin on .December 4, Balmerston North on December 10. and Christchurch on December. IL