PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 156, 30 December 1938, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

Lieutenant-Colonel c. H. Brock, a tea planter of India, who has been visiting Auckland, is passing through Wellington to join the Akaroa for Southampton. 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 in the 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 January 10. Mr. L. B. Bestall, director of the Hawke's Bay Museum, will leave NewZealand in Marcti for a tour through . the Uniter' States, Canada, and Europe. Mr. Bes'/il has received a grant from the C-Ynegie Corporation of New York to enable him to visit overseas countries to study developments in display and preservation of museum exhibits. Dr. D. W. McElwain, Ph.D., of the Census and Statistics Department, Wellington, has accepted a lectureship in phychology at Perth University, Western Australia, and will leave to take up his newi duties in about two months; , Dr. C. E. Hercus, dean *of the Medical Faculty of the University of Otago, who has been awarded a.. Carnegia Corporation Visitors' Grant to study university and medical school administration and developments in biological sciences, is in Wellington, and will sail by the Port Huon for London tomorrow. :■ •"- ■-■ ' '•■'■'