PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 35, 10 August 1936, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. R. Darroch, honorary secretary of the New Zealand Navy League conference, left for Wanganui yesterday to deliver a series of addresses on the Navy, the merchant service, and inter-Empire trade, under the auspices of the Wanganui branch of the league and the Wanganui Education Board.

Mr. M. J. Reardon, Conciliation Commissioner, will leave for Napier tomorrow to attend a Conciliation Council sitting.

■ Mr. Ernest Davis, ftiayor of Auckland, who has been on a holiday visit to Pago Pago, American Samoa, returned by the Mariposa on Friday.

The Rev. Dr. J. Ernest Rattenbury, of England, president of the National Free Church Council, passed through Auckland on Friday by the Mariposa on his way to Adelaide, where he has been engaged as the centenary preacher for the Pirie Street Methodist Church.

Mr. C. F. Browne, of Stanley Bay, Auckland, who was organist and choirmaster at St. Peter's Church, Takapuna. for a number of years, has been appointed to a similar position at Fendalton, Christchurch. For the past three years Mr. Browne has been organist at the Holy Trinity Church, Avonside

Mr. P. S. Seeley, of Portland, Oregon, was a passenger for Sydney by the Mariposa from Auckland on Friday. He will carry out an extensive lecturing tour of Australia on behalf o£ the Christian Science Board of Lectureship, and will later return to speak in the principal centres of New Zealand. Mrs. Seeley accompanies her husband.

Messrs. J. A. and F. Grinter (Auckland), J. B. Macdonald (Dunedin), H. B. Witherow Bell (Ashburton), T. May (Hastings), A. H. Russell (Gisborne), Randolph Guggenheimer and E. L. Rossin (New York? are slaying at the Midland Hotel. ' '

Messrs. W. S. Lee and T. R. Stoneman (Christchurch), H. J. Longstaff (Havelock North), and R. S. Palmer (Marton) are staying at the Royal Oak Hotel.

Messrs. C. Calder. (Hawera), E. R. Morrison (Christchurch), VJ. N. Nicoll (Ashburton), T. E. Hansel (Wanganui), and A. E. Ross (Chile) are guests at the Grand Hotel..

Messrs. R. Ferry (Whakatane), W. Keane (Gore), A.'Satherwaite and J. Simpson (Christchurch), and H. Honeyfield (Palmerston North) are staying at the Hotel St. George.

Messrs. A. E. Dodd (Helensville), P. Inglis (Christchurch), E. A; Frethy and R. A. Milligan (Auckland), J. W. Hopkins (Waihi), S. T. Vickers and H. C. Jacka (New Plymouth'), R. Kirkwood (Stratford), R. A. Mac Donald and C. A. Hammond (Hawera), J. A. Cook, M. C. Stewart, and C. W. Dickey (Wanganui), J. N. Anderson and E. R. Trolove (Waverley), J. K. Leavey and E. C. Donald (Tauranga) are staying at the Empire Hotel.