PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 149, 12 July 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr Noel Jameson has returned. to Ongaonga' after a holiday visit to Fiji. Mr S. Vesty has returned to Hastings after a visit to the United {States Mr Stanley Muir, of Gisborne, is a patient in a privafca hoapital in Auckland, where he is to undergo a major opejration. Sir Abe Bailey has undergone tho ampjitation of a leg owing to phlebitis, states a Loddon cable. He is progressing satisfactorily. — Press Assn. Dr. Markham Lee^ of London, exam- ' iner for the Royal' Academy of Music, arrived at Auckland by the Mariposa to conduct music examinations in the Dominion. FJying-Officer R. G. R. Buckley, elder s6n of Mr G. Buqkley, of Epsom, Auckland, who has been in the Ro.yal Air Force fpr several years, has be.en promoted to th.e rank of ant. Sir Ernest Davis, Mayor of Auckland, who went on a holiday tour by the liner Monterey for Honolulu, chianged his plans on arrival at Suya and transferred to the cruise ship Strathnaver, and proceeded to Sydney. Mr £. P. Kerry, of Sydney, was appointed by the executive of the New Zealand Brass Bands' Association today chief adjudicator at the band contest to be held at Palmerston North next February. Mr T. Goodall, of Wellington, was appofnted assistant adr judicator. — Press Assn. Dr. A. W. Beveridge ha? resigned from the position of consulting eye specialist to the Waikato Hospital as from the .end of Angust. Dr. Beveridge has held the position of eye specialist at the hospital for the past 15 years. He will be suceeeded in the position by Dr. Duncan Macdiarmid, of Auckland, fornierly a house surgeon at the Waikato Hospital. Captain James Plowman's appointment as harbourmaster at Lyttelton in place of Captain J. F. Grawford, who retired several months ago, has been conlirmed by the Lyttelton Harbour "Poard. Since Captain Crawford's retirement Captain Plowman has been act-ing-harbourmaster. He joined the board's staff in 1922. Captain A. EChrisp was appointed deputy-harbour-master, and Captain A. R. Ghampion, Bluff > second pilot. ♦ The actingrMinister of Labour, tho Hon. P, C. Webb, left Wellington yesterday for an extended tour of the North Island, during which he will eonfer wifh local-body .representatives iu various districts with a view to finding employment for able-bodied men now on sustenance. Mr Webb will be in Auckland on Mpnday, Tuesday and Wedpesday of this week. He will visit the Wai'"'ato on the Thufsday and from thejre proceed tp Rotorua. He is due at Tauranga on July 19, and on the following day he is to meet local bodies at Whakatane and Opotiki. He is sehedpled to reach Gisborne on July 21, A visit will also be made to Ruatoria. The Minister, who will be away from Wellington for about a fortnight, will leave the East Coast on July 22 on his return to Wellington. • *