PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 21, 26 January 1938, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) will preside over the criminal sessions of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth on February 21.

Mr. Justice Reed will return to Wellington from, the north on Friday.

Mr. Justice- Blair, w';o has be vfr on a short visit to Auckland, returned to Wellington today.

Mr. Justice Johnston is presiding over a sitting of the Court of Review at Napier today, and on Tuesday will conduct the criminal session.-of the Supreme Court at Hamilton instead of Mi\ Justice Ostler.

Mr. A. H. Johnstone, K.C., of Avondale, has returned north after a brief visit to Wellington.

Members of the executive of the St. Andrew Burns Club visited Mr. and Mrs. R. Hogg, of Johnsonville, on Monday and made them.a presentation on the occasion of their golden wedding. Mr. Hogg was the first president of the club. •

The Hon. F. Waiter M.L.C.,' arrived, in Wellington this morning from the South Island.

Major-General Sir William SinclairBurgess'was a passenger'by the Rangatira from the south this morning.

Mr. J. S. Muir, of the' China Inland Mission, son of Mr. Stanley Muir, of Gisborne, is reported to be dangerously ill with typhus. Advice' has been received, however, that the "patient has passed the crisis. .

Mr. E. Esdaile, general manager of the Dominion Life Assurance' Office, left last evening by the steamer express for the south.

Mr. Sydney Jacobs, formerly of Wellington, has been reappoirited to represent the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand on the Council of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire in. London. • . '

■ Mr. J. S. Hunter, Secretary of Labour, is at present in the South Island with the Minister of Labour on departmental business. He expects to return to Wellington about the end of next week.

The Rev. L. A. Knight was consecrated Bishop of Bunbury at Perth, Western Australia, yesterday. The new bishop is an old boy of the Christchurch Boys' High School and served as a chaplain during the Great War. Before being appointed warden of St. Barnabas' College, Adelaide, he had been vicar at Hororata, Leithfield, and Kaiapoi, and he was also rector of the St. Saviour's Boys' Orphanage, Timaru. Bunbury is 120 miles from Perth.

Major J. K. Rashleigh, retired, of Cornwall, England, was a passenger by the Aorangi, which arrived' at Auckland on Monday from Sydney. Ha left for Rotorua yesterday to begin the first stage of a fishing holiday in various parts of the Dominion. Major Rashleigh expects to-be in New Zealand about a month. : •■'•■■

Mr. B. C. Chilwell, of Auckland, has been appointed by the council of tlie Royal Sanitary Institute,, England, as an examiner on the New Zealand Board of Examinations, established for the .purpose, of conducting- tests for members of the staffs of the public health departments and tother local government authorities throughout the British Empire.

Mr. C. K. Sheard, assistant manager of the Bank of New South Wales, Auckland, has been appointed manager of the Post Office branch, Brisbane, and will leave for Australia by the Niagara on. February 8. Mr. W. F Hargreaves, late assistant, to the inspector of the Victorian division of the bank, has been appointed to' sue« ceed Mr. Sheard- in Auckland: • .-•