PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1932, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

Dr. L. -G. Austin has returned from Kimboiton. ... Dr. and Mrs. M. 0. Louisson will leave Uiis evening fur the South. . ilr. aid Mrs. T. Lloyd "will be among' those leaving this evening for the South. Dr. P. A, Beimot Clark,. of. Edinburgh, was a passenger un the Msrania, which arrived to-day from Sydney. Dr. Clark, who is accompanied by his wife, is on a holiday "visit to New Zealand. Messrs. D. J. Hawkc, A. Baird, J.ft. Eadley, G. Tapper (Auckland) jJ. Bowen (Sydney), and B. Dooley (Nek son) are staying aC the Grand Hotel.'Mr. and Mrs. D. Kona-vrie (Wanganui), Mr. and Mrs. H. S. iScagar (Auckland), Messrs. E. 11. Carter (Wanga-' nui), 11.- J. Dewc (Feilding), and F. Bartlett (Onchunga) are among this' guests at the Empire Hotel.

The l?ev. A. A. Murray, formerly pi Auckland, has received, the. degree ot Doctor of Divinity aftbc Central Urii-" versity oJ: Philadelphia, Ihiited ■'States-.■ Dr. Murray's thesis fpr^tlio exaniiua*-' lion -iv.as entitled "The Jew in Prophecy." .-• ■-'.":;

Guests, at the Hotel St. George -include Mrs. -M. Sauuders (Melbourne), Mrs. G. Musson (Sydney), Mrs. BriseogGeorge and the- Misses V. and J.- Briscoe George (London), Misses. K. and I. Barnes Graham (Sydney), Miss '- CV Caton (Melbourne), and" Miss' Bowker (Christchurch). ■ ..--.'■ :

Private advice has been' received" in, Wellington' of the death' at •■ Plymouth on Hth November of Captain "Thomas Popham, formerly a well-kHowh: shramaster iri the New Zealand Australiaa.1 trade. On retiring from the service of the Union. Steam Ship Company, "he was engaged in private business--for some years, and has latterly resided in lingland.'■■: . ■ " ■;;:-;■■

Among thc.guesfe at the Koyal Oak' Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. "H/ KebKeU (Alf reuton), Lieutenant-Go'lonel :.'jL Mellor (Havelock North), 'Messrs, - jr. Brooksbank, H. Illingworth G. Bobijison, A. E. Barker, E. Richard, H. T. Milnes, B. E. Milnes (Christchurch)y &; Brown, E. J. Deimy (Dukedm)/T; M-' Glenn (Hawera), D, ■■ H. : NandibroV (Wanganui), J. Corfy (Blenteim)^ A.'' E. Calder, K. N. D. Miller, aid'Hild'egard Streich (Melbourne).' ''" '■. '

The death" has occurred in Auckland of Mr. James Braund, of Devonport, who was well known in boating circles in the city and an early Auckland representativo Rugby player, telegraphs;' "The Post's" Auckland -correspondent. Mr. Braund, .who was the eldest'son of the lato Captain JV Braund,. was a prominent member of the Ponsonby Rugby Club and :i contemporary of K. Whiteside and J. Arneil. .He represented Auckland as a full back in 188$and ISS7, and then retired from Rugby for some time on account of. injury to_ his knee. ' His brother, Alby, cap 4 tamed Auckland for many years, retir-. ing after the famous match with Welt ilington in 1897.

Sir Percy A. Harris, Liberal M.P., and formerly chairman of the London County Council, who figures as one of the new baronets in the New Year Hon* ours, is well known in the Dominion, being a director in London of the New Zealand firm of Bing, Harris, and Co., Ltd., warehousemen. Born, in 1876, ho is the second son of the late Mr. Wolf Harris, and was educated at Harrow, and Trinity Hall,:. Cambridge,where he graduated- with honours- in/ History in 1897.. He was called to the Bar two years later. He has travelled round the world three times, and lived' for three years in New Zealand. He started the- Volunteer Training Corps in August, 1914, and was appointed by, the Army Council on s_pecial command .to organise- -volunteer corps. .'^He" is honorary- secretary of-the QeitEa-l-'AB-: sociation Volunteer Regiments, and the author ol several publications. - He was elected to the House .of -Commons in 1922, and in October lasV was returned with a majority of over 10,000. His two sons, Messrs. Jack' and Nicho* las Harris, are now in New- Zealand touring the North. Island,, and -his. brother, Mr. Leslie Harris, is at present visiting Wellington. ■■' ; : •.

Visitors to Wellington staying at the Hotel St. George include Dr. and Mrs. Bonnet Clark (Edinburgh), Mr. and Mrs. Costello (Melbourne), Mr: and Mrs. F. Carr (Sydney), Mr. and Mrs. G. Thwaites (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. H. Piat, Mr. and Mrs. G. A; Findlay;' (Christchurch), Messrs.; J. G. Nolan. (Gisborne), A. Cookson, D. G. Ogilvia (Auckland), J. F. Pepler (New York), F. Leonhard (Amsterdam),; N. Scott; F. Nanearrow, ,"f. D. Napier (Sydh'ey)i A. Eastaugh (Melbourne), C. H. :Partridge (Bombay), H.- Galbraith, Watson. Dawson, G. B. Gebbie, Ny A. White, E. Milnes,, M.~. Kunzli,- G. Graichen, W. Daum, C. J..JCemer, J«JB._ Clark, F. B. Clark, G. Anderson, K. H.- Hill, Herbert Hill," P. H. Brown, F. - Marshall, S. Teal, J. A. P«arker, "Bruno Beyer (ChrJstchuich), K. J." Fulton (Dunedin),W. Eobinsoii ; (Birmingham, 'England}, A. Busheli (Hamilton), and A. Adler, (London).