PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 72, 27 March 1933, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEBEGAL.

The Governor-General' and Lady Bledisloe attended Divine Service at St. Mark's Church yesterday morning, and iii the evening were "present at the special service held in the Vivian Street Baptist Church to commemorate its fifty-fifth anniversary; , This evening his; Excellency : will leave Wellington by the Limited express in order to preside at the meeting of the Waitangi National Trust Board to be held at Waitangi on Thursday next. His Excellency will return to Wellington early next week.

Mr. A. St. J. Huddleston, who is succeeding Mr. C. M. Strouts as manager of the Masterton ljTaneh of the Bank of New South - Wales, arrived: from Tokomaru Bay -on TMirsday. Mr. Strouts is retiring, and Mr. Huddleston is taking over the managership of the branch at the. end of this month. ' The Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. A. D. Park), who was taken ill shortly after his return from the Ottawa Conference, has made1 an excellent recoyery and has resumed his •■■ duties at the Treasury. The Prime Minister (the Bt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) will. leave Wellington this evening for Auckland. He will be the guest of the Aueklana Chamber" of Commerce at lunch tomorrow, and will then proceed to Waitangi, where the first meeting of the . board appointed to'administer the site of the signing; of the Waitangi Treaty will be .held; He will return to "Wellington early next week. _ '■■. . • * Staying at the Hotel St. George ara Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Munro (New South Wales), and Mr. J. J. Battersby (Engianil). ' Mr. P. B. Broad, chairman of the Wellington Cricket Association, left today on a business'visit to Blenheim. Mr. Sverre Lie, Consul .for Norway in Melbourne, and Mrs.- Lie, who have been spending a holiday in New Zealand, were to leave Auckland today for Melbourne. • - .. Lieutenant-Commander G. St. A. Alcock, the new staff officer for Naval Intelligence at Wellington, is expected to arrive from London by the Mataroa, on Wednesday. '....'.' . Sir B. Heaton Rhodes will leava Christchurch for -Wellington this evening to join the Ministerial party which, will attend-a.meeting of the'Waitangi Trust Board. , . Mr.' C.HHr.r Clinkard, M.P., was among the passengers from the south vested day morning. .' ■" Dr. B. Campbell Begg returned to Wellington yesterday morning from thk south. •■•. - ■■■■.■:■ v Dr. F. B. Ritchie, "Dunedin; arrived in Wellington from the South Island yesterday morning. [ The Bey. M. A. Eugby. Pratt, expresident of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, has been elected to a Fellowship of the Boyal Historical Society (London), in recognition .of achievement in the field of history and for his contribution to historical knowledge made- in his book, "The Pioneer" ing Days of Southern Maoriland." ' The election of a representative of the graduates of the New, Zealand University on the Senate resulted in', the return of Mr. A. E. Flower, of. Christchurch, who was formerly a member of the Senate. • -.'...'. The death occurred in Wellington yesterday of Mr. Frank T. Fraser at the' age of 76 years. The late Mr. Fraser was the eldest son of a onetime prominent Wellington City Councillor and legislator, the late Hon. F. H. Fraser, M.L.G., and a brother of Captain Robert .Fraser,. late superintendent of ■Mercautile'Marine at Dunedin. v '. " ' '■'.' ."""" - '•■'■■' The late. Dr. ;David : Borrie, who's* death is reported - from Basra (Irak), was educated at the Otago -Boys' High School, the University of Otago, and the University of Edinburgh. He held several appointments in Scotland before going out to Mesopotamia, where he was for some time attached to the staff of the British Consulate. He saw; active service during the Great "War* He was a son of the Bey. David Borrie^ a well-known Presbyterian minister in.' Otago, but his parents are both dead. A brother, Dr. Gillies Borrie, is practising in Auckland, and another brother, Mr. John Borrie, is ■ a runholder in Hawke's Bay. One married sister lives - in Bagdad, and another,; Mrs. Dodds, is the wife of a Nelson chemist, while a single sister lives in Wellington. Dr. Borrie leaves, a widow and two children, a boy and a girl. Among the guests at the Midland Hotel are Judge and Mrs. Luxford (Apia), Mr, -and- Mrs.. W. Bartlejr (Singapore), Messrs. G. H. Beid, and C,! J. Cowan (Lo.ndon) and J. S. Eiddiford, (Featherston). •■■.'■■■■ Mr. and Mrs. Simmonds and Mrs. T. A. Roberts (Auckland) are staying-at the Boyal Oak Hotel. . . "Visitors to Wellington staying at tha Empire Hotel include Messrs. H. W. Taylor (Auckland), E. Miller (Wanganui), T. Barker (Sydney), JSIr. and Mrs. Knight (Fielding"), and Mr. and Mrs. Gifford (Auckland). ■■•■■•■ . Messrs. W. G. Macindoe, .Jas. Oliver (Auckland), J. E. Watts (Melbourne), S. Wishart, and A, Johnston (Christchurch) are among the guests at tha Grand Hotel. . ■ ...