PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1938, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. H.. M. Rushworth, formerly a. member of Parliament for Bay of Islands, who is a patient in a private hospital in Auckland following the amputation of a leg which was seriously injured in the Great W^ar, is making a good recovery- / Mr. F. W, Doidge, M.P. for 'Taur--anga, was admitted to a private hospital in Auckland on Monday and underwent ah operation. He is. making satisfactory progress. • ' Mr. R. E. Champtaloup, touring manager of the Automobile Association. (Auckland), will leave on January: 17 for an overseas tour that 'will occupy about 'eight months. -• , Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. Brock, a tea' planter of India, who has been visiting Auckland, is passing through Wellington to join the Akaroafor Southampton. , , - ._;• • . Mr. L. B. Bestall, director' of the Hawke's Bay Museum, will leave New, Zealand in March for a tour througll the United States, Canada, and Europe. Mr. Bes,tall has received a grant from the. Carnegie Corporation of New; York to enable him to visit oversofis countries to study developments in dis-; 5-lay and preservation of niuseum ex-

hibits.

- Mr. ■ Frank >C. Menzies, Crown Solictor for Victoria, and brother of Mr. J. L. Menzies, Assistant Australian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, and Dr. J. L. Diggle, a leading Melbourne surgeon, are on a brief visit to New Zealand. They are at present on tour invthe South Island, and:later will visit .Rotorua and other points of interest in the North Island. Mr. Menzies will be the guest of his brother at 21 Burnell Avenue from January 12 to 24 and will then leave by the Awatea for Australia. Dr. Diggle will return to Australia by the Niagara, leaving Auckland on Janjuary. 10.