PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

Professor J. Shelley, of Canterbury. College, left Wellington last evening on his return to Christchurch.

The. Minister of Finanqe (the. Kt. Hon. J. G. Coates) left by air this morning for Feilding, where he is opening the annual show. He will return to Wellington.this evening."■■':"; ■■"-• ':' ;?? ' Dr. P. P. Lynch, pathologist to the Wellington Hospital, left Wellington yesterday for Wanganui; from" w.hich' port he wUI leave by the steamer Mamari for the Old Country. It is hia intention to visit the laboratories of hospitals .and allied institutions ;, of• Great Britain and .the Continent. He, will make a particular point of visiting the headquarters of the British Empire. 1 Cancer Campaign and the cancer'treat-1 ment and research, centres of the Continent. Dr. Lynch will return'to Wellington next-September. . ■ '. 'vr" ' '

. Captain A. Ogilvy, a retired master mariner; accompanied by his wife, arrived by the Tainui from' England yes-' terday. He was with the. Aberdeen' and White Star Line, and commanded the Tamarba when .she was horned' the Sophocles, the Demosthenes; and other" well-known ships. Captain Ogilyy. rev tired, from the sea four years: ago. ' H«. intends returning to England via' Australia. ■ -'■ •'•■■'■ ..'■-.'.-■ . ■■--. •:•.,-. ';

Mr.W.H. Lee-Cooper.and' ; Mrsr,Lee-; Cooper,- of London, were .passengers by the -Tainui from England -. yesterday: afternoon. After spending :• about: a. fortnight in New Zealand, they intend going on to Australia. * ! *■■■'■''•'■■-■

".Captain W. Wright, who was'; connected with the London branch; of jthe New Zealand Department of, .'Agriculture for, twelve years, arrived with* Mrs.; Wright' and .son by t^e- Tainui; yesterday. ' Captain Wright 'retired a few, months ago, and, with his family, he intends living in Auckland ■: i. '". \

Lieutenant-General E. T. Humphreys and Mrs. Humphreys were passengers < who arrived- from; England '■■ yesterday: afternoon by the Tainui. For about three years General Humphreys was' tin the .Military Operations Department of the War: Office,in' London. ..He'.is on half-pay . and has come- out to New. : Zealand for a holiday, but principally ■ to do some trout fishirig. In all probability he will be about three months in the Dominion.

Mr. William Lee, of Goodwood,'has announced his: intention, to. stand '.■ i or j re-election'--to':the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board,.of which he has beena member for seven years, states a Dunedin'Press Association message.

Mr. Justice Edward Milner Stephens, one of the nine Judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, is at.pre-1 sent visiting Wellington in the course of.a holiday tour of New Zealand. He is accompanied by Mrs. Stephens. The great-grandfather, grandfather, and father.of Mr. Justice Stephens were all Judges, and he is" related to a well-known English family of jurists. Mri Justice Stephens occupied a.seat on ,■'■ the Supreme Court Bench today during the partial hearing of a case-

Mr. Gordon Bennett, a prominent Australian agricultural journalist, and Mr. J. M. Coleman, an officer of the New- South Wales Department •of Agriculture, arrived at Auckland by the Aorangi on Monday to make a study of small farm settlement in- the Dominion arid the fat-lamb industry.

Captain ,F. G. Cadiaz, a retired commander of the Peninsular and Orient Company,' is l spending ■■ a .fishing. -holiday in New Zealand.

Sifv Charles Orr, of London, a member, of the council of. the • Victoria. League, arrived at Auckland by the Aorangi on Monday,; on a short holiday, /trip to the Dominion;

Mr. F. J. Perry, the lawn tennis1 champion, sailed from Auckland by the' Aorangi yesterday for Honolulu. Later he will visit Hollywood.

Mr.. Justice Johnston is .conducting the quarterly session of the ■■ Supreme Court at Thnaru. He wiU returns to Christchurch at the eiid of the week; '

: Mf.' Justice Herdman has.'returned to. Auckland aft6r a holiday inVttie. Potorua-district. ~->. :• ■< ;.

Mr. L. G. Usher, headmaster; of th^ Levuka :School,, Fiji,l who has; spent, the' holidays in - New ' Zealand,. : left Auckland yesterday by the Aorangifor'Suva.:-.' -.::.:.'. ;- -:- •' .■/ :■ ::^:v-'-'--->:-

\'--Mr;"<J.;-'C>-:,"Nefll, i --inycolioglst-i^t--'-';ttie plant research station;' •Palmei'ston North, returned to Neiv Zealand by the. Imperial Star after" an" absence,:'of. nine months in. England aridr on -the Continent, during * which he iaftended the■ Imperial'Myc'ological - Conference.

Mr. John Farrell, representing JV c. Williamson, Ltd., arrived in: Wellington". .yibsterday to complete arrange orients; for the. production of i"Ten Minute Alibi" and,"The Wind and the Bain.!'.;-' ■ :, .-'■• : .-■.■;■-'. V;:v.- . ; ,'./■