PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Postmaster-General' (the Hon. F. Jones) will leave Wellington tonight for Thames, where he will open a new post office tomorrow. ... ~ :

The Minister of Railways (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) will leave Wellington tonight for. New Plymouth, to investigate railway, matters' : about which local bodies have made representations. He will go on to Frankton during the weekend and will receive deputations there on Monday. He will inspect the Otahuhu railway,l workshops on Monday afternoon and will return to Wellington "on Tuesday;-

Mr. R. Juriss , has. commenced his duties on the staff-of the-Magistrate's Court at Petone and Lower, Hutt in succession to the late Mr. V.:G: Parkin.

Mr. A. S. Brown, of Makower and Mcßeath, Ltd., will leave Wellington for the north by the Limited express tonight.

Mr. J. I. Goldsmith, chairman of the Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment League, ,who has been visiting Auckland, returned to Wellington by air loday.

Mr. Will Appletpn left by the: express steamer last evening ,",oiv,.a.. business visit to Dunedin.. '' '.'^' .'' Mr. D. Firth Reid, mlnager of the Bank of New Zealand in Boridfori,'will arrive in -Wellington by this Akafoa on Monday. : : t :.-.:. .;-. ■;■■ ■. Mr, P..Shaw is io be. the.manager of the Auckland team ;to meet Wellington in the final of the PlunketShield competition.' : . :.';;;:■;■. : Mr. S,'.S. M'illin'gton, cdritrolier of stores for the Railway Department, left for the north by, the Limited express last-night.- '-'••'. " ' -'■v- v~-. Mr. G. Steph'ensoh, of-Wright, 'Stephi enson, a.'nd' ea,^Ltd^;left? Wellington for tlie north :byVhe':lyimited. express last night. : . s . ' ' ■-"' ; '■]'-".]""__ *'~ ' Mr. .M;. Death, of the Fletepr^Construction Company, Ltd., leftVWelling.ton for the'north by the :X*iihited ex« press last njght. . .::':;;.. U. ,

The Rev. W. H. S. Hinc. of Christchurch, who has been spending a holw day in Auckland, a/rived in Wellington today by the Limited express. He was accompanied by Mrs. Hine.

- The Rev, Father K. D.". ', Crowe, C.SS.R., of St. Gerard's' Redeiftptorist Monastery, Wellington, who has-been transferred to Ballarat, Victoria, left Auckland for Sydney by the.Awatea yesterday. ■ ■'.■'■

Mr. N. Porter, of Auckland, -left fotf Sydney by the Awatea yesterday. He will proceed to Hobart, where he will represent New Zealand at the biannual conference of the Australasian Institute of Secretaries.

Mr. W. Barnett, of the 'Manunui School, King Country, left Auckland for Sydney by the Awatea yesterday, having been appointed, .an exchange teacher from New Zealand irt'./Nev South Wales schools during the present year. Lieutenant-Commander G. 'C." Oldham, R.A.N., and Mrs." Oldh'am, arrived at Auckland by the ■ Imperial Star yesterday from England, where Lieutenant-Commander Oldham has served for about a year in the Royal Navy- After a visit to Mrs. Oldham's parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Gibson, of Christchurch, they will proceed to Australia, where Lieutenant-Comman-der Oldham will rejoin -the 'Royal Australian Navy.

Mr. J. L. Menzies, the new-Assistant Trade Commissioner for Australia in. New Zealand, and his wife, \yill arrive at Wellington on Monday by-the Awatca from Sydney. Mr. Menzies, who has been attached to the Tourist and i Commerce Department of Canberra, is a brother of the Hon. Robert Menzies, P.C., Attorney-General to the-Common-wealth Government, and one Of1 Australia's most brilliant speakers.'' Mr. J. Payne, the present Assistant Commissioner, who has been acting as commissioner since Mr. R. H. Nesbitt left New Zealand, is to le'aye Wellington by, the Awatea for Sydney on February 21. He will probably be retained by the Commerce Department at Canberra for a short time before leaving to' take up the duties of Assistant Commissioner for Australia in Egypt.