PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 55, 2 September 1926, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

i * VICE-EEGAL. His Excollency tho Governor-General will be present at the korcro of the Wellington Orphans' Club in. tho Masonic Hall on Saturday evening. Her Excellency Lady Alice ITergusson opened tho annual bazaar' and Bale of work at St. Thomas's, Wellington South, at 3 o'clock this afternoon. On Tuesday, 14th September, tho Governor-Gonoral will open tiie Hutt Valley Horticultural Society's Spring Show at 2.30 p.m., in tho King George Theatre, Lower Hutt. Their Excellencies will leave Wclington on Monday, 20th September, to pay an official visit to Blenheim and Picton, returning to Government House on tho 26th. Dr. M'Evedy was a passenger from Lyttelton this morning. Sir John and Lady Findlay arrivod by. the Maori from tho South this morning. Dr. J. M. Clarke, of Dunodin, whq^has been appointed resident medical superintendent of tho Now Plymouth Hospital, arrived in New Plymouth on Monday night. * Br. H. L. Biose, a noted Oxford physicist, who is temporarily attechod to Sydney University, has arrived at Auckland from Sydney, and will spend a holiday with his brother, Mr. E. W. Brose, of Epsom. Mr. L. O. Tripp was again elected president of the New Zealand Acclimatisation Societies' Association yesterday. A warm appreciation of his past services was expressed by Mr. E. Bussen (Southland) and the appointment was greeted with acclamation. Writing to a friend in Wellington, Mr. M. Myers, who is visiting England, states that ho visited Mr. Tunbridgc, formerly Commissioner of Police in Now Zealand, and found him enjoying excellent health. Mr. Tunbridgo, writes Mr. Myers, still talcs a very close and keen inteerst in Dominion affairs. Mr. W. Newton, Conciliation Commissioner at Wellington, is shortly resuming duty at tho head office of the Labour Department,, after nearly nine years' service in -connection with industrial disputes. It is understood that Mr. P. Halloy, at present Commissioner of tho Northern Industrial District, will take the Wellington cases in the future.