PERSONAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 246, 7 January 1928, Page 7

PERSONAL

roverner-OeneraJ and Lady Alice I”’’ ' Q nropose to leave Wellington ,e fTv?ednesduy evfnlne for Dunedin Bf u Invercargill, and for an official **“ . se veral districts in Southland, •our o January 20 their Excellencies ‘into residence at Elmwood, sill * Road, Christchurch, for three or a month, and early in March t 0 pe.v their customary annual prop®* Auckland, where they will take visU -.sidence at Government House. UP their Excellencies will we* 1 garden party at Government Wellington.

Ur L H Ellis, Director of Forestry, b Siting

„„ Colin Muston left for the South by the Limited.

Mr G Collins was a passenger from tl,eS<> uth by the Limited this morning.

w > H- Kimbell, Under-Secretary Mines, arrived from the South by ?u. limited this morning.

Mr G. Wilson, chief clerk of the nmmercial branch of the railways, is 'isitins Auckland on holiday.

~ H. Easterfleld, director of the roVthron institute. Nelson, is staying the Central Hotel.

Mr A B. Roberton, Consul for Japan at Auckland, is staying at Paihia, Bay e f Islands. Dr. Lealie G - Austin, of Wellington, . Waiting the Bay of Islands district after spending a short holiday in Auckland.

Mr. R- S. Hellaby arrived from London recently on a short visit to relative* ai d is staying with his mother at Long Drive, St. Heliers.

Mr. F. W. Furkert, Engineer-in- - Chief. Public. Works Department, arrived'at Hamilton this morning on a visit to Arapuni.

Dr. E. Marsden, secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, travelled by the Limited as far as Frankton Junction this morning.

Professor Maxwell Walker has been tlected as chairman of the Professorial Board of the Auckland University College.

The Hon. T. Shailer Weston, M.L.C., Of Wellington, journeyed from Franktoo Junction to Wellington by the Limited last evening.

Mr. Frank Graham, who witA Mrs. Graham has been spending a holiday In Auckland, left by car yesterday on the return trip to Christchurch.

Vice-Admiral Sir James Fergusson, brother of the Governor-General, will leave tor the Bay of Islands to-day, and wiii do some deep-sea fishing there. He will later leave for the South for trout fishing, returning to England in April. Lady Fergusson will accompany him.

Mr. Edward Walker, manager of the Bank of Australasia at Ballarat, Victoria. who has just spent three weeks in New Zealand on holiday, left for Aostralia by the Marama yesterday afternoon.

The Hon. A. D. McLeod, Minister of Lands, will leave Wellington next Tuesday for a tour in North Auckland and will be away several days. He will go straight to Whangarei to attend the jubilee celebrations of the county council there and immediately afterwards will join the Prime Minister at Dargavill© in order to take part in the official opening of tlio new road through the Waipoua State Forest. While in Dargaville he will take the opportunity of making a close examination of the proposed settlements on the Government’s land at Tangowahine and will also attend to other departmental matters in the neighbourhood. It is improbable that Mr. McLeod will be able to accompany the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. 0. J. Hawken, on his extended tour of the Bay of Islands district. HOTEL REGISTER • Grand.—Mr. C. Pennington (Christchurch). * * * Star.—Mr. W. H. Styles (Wellington). Central.—Mr. W. J. Andrae and Mr. J. Williamson (Sydney), Mr. L. C. Smith, Mr. V. Lowther-Crofton, Mr. A. G. Washer (Wellington). • • • Commercial.—Mr. J. Garner, Mr. J. Langley (Wellington), Mr. D. Ellin (Whangarei), Mr. C. Chapman (Cambridge), Mr. F. Makings (Christchurch). Royal.—Mr. H. Thompson (Morrins▼Hle), Mr. W. McDonald, Mr. J. G. Hankin (Wellington), Mr. T. H. Sim (Palmerston North), Mr. H. J. Harris, Mr. K. Taylor, Mr. F. G. Ball, Mr. W. Wilson (Blenheim).