PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 172, 7 August 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

«— ■ ■ ■■ VICE-REGAL The Governor-General will be present at the Springboks' match this afternoon. In the evening he attends the annual dinner of the New Zealand Com-: pany of Mastef Mariners. — P.A. Mr Kenneth Mackenzie has left for Australia, where he will attend the Australasian Medical Congress at Adelaide. Professor W. A. Sewell, professor of English at Auckland University Coiiege, is to leave next week for England on nine months' leave of absence. Miss Joan Matthews and Mr Walter Matthews, Hatuma, are spending the week-end in Napier t and are the guests of Captain and Mrs White-Parsons, •' Highcliff." Mr Peter White-Parsons, son of the Napier harbourmaster, is ieaving Napier on Tuesday for Wellington, where he will join the t.s.s. Matakana, en route for England. Mr W. Summerville, ' son of the late Dr. John Summerville, of Wairoa, and well known throughout Hawke's Bay, left Auckland yesterday for England where he will stay foi' about 18 months While studying modern methods of printing. M11 and Mrs A. Holmes, of Southland road, Hastings, left yesterday for a visit to the South Island. They intend being in Christchurch for National Week and then will proceed as far south as invercargill before returning home the end of this month. Mr C. N. Neale has been appointed New South Walea Commissioner for Road Transport and Tramways at a salalaty of £2500 a year. Mr Neale joiued the Sydney tramway serviee in 1896 as an office boy at a salary of ten shillings a week. — Press Association cable. Mr Charles Todd, deputy manager of the New Zealand Centenary Exhibition, is visiting Glasgow to arrange for sending out detailed plans of the Glasgow Empire Exhibition to Wellington. He is making a special study of the floodlighting, fountains and the amusement park. The Hon. J. A. Hanan, M.L.O., Chancellor of the Universitj of New Zealand, who has been visitmg Sritain and Europe, is returning to the Dominion by way of Canada. After having conferred with university representatives in M011treal, Ottawa and Vancouver, he joined the Niagara for Auckland, where lie is due on August 23. The Rev. K. Button, at present an assistanttcurate at Catford, a suburb of London, has accepted the po«t of assistant-cul-ate at St. Mary's Cathe* dral, Parnell, for a period of one year, and will arrive early in November. Mr Button was educated at Wellington College, Victoria University Coiiege and Cambridge University, where he gained second-class honours in the tlieological tripos,