PERSONAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 368, 31 May 1928, Page 9

PERSONAL

The Governor-General, Sir Charles „_usson. attended tho annual meet- ** of the St. John Ambulance Asso- : tion last evening. Their Excellen‘Ju will be present at tho opening c ‘ cert of tho Royal Auckland Choir | the Town Hall this evening. In honour of the King’s Birthday, an officisl dinner party will be given at Government House on Monday evening. The Prime Minister, the Right Hon. i G. Coates, will arrive in Auckland j Saturday morning by the 8.41 a.m. express from Wellington. j. u. Perrett left Auckland for j the South by train last evening. n r Patterson arrived from the South | hy the Limited this morning. ur C. H. Dickinson returned from | Wellington by the Limited this morn- i in*. Mr. p. C. Watt, of Wellington, will leave" for the Pacific Rotary Conference in Japan in August. jjr H. M. Campbell. M.P. for Hawke's Bay, arrived by the Limited from Wellington this morning. Mr B C. Housley. chief traffic clerk. _ ho has been visiting Wellington, returned to Auckland this morning. \lr and Mrs. F. Kenning and Mr. and Mrs. R- Davies, of Nelson, are riaytnS at the Commercial Hotel. Ur J. G. Rickerby, district trafHo manager, returned from Wellington by the Limited this morning. Mr. J. P- Peek, of Christchurch, the well-known Rugby referee, arrived from the South this morning and is staying at the Central Hotel. Mr. W. E. Parry, M.P. for Auckland Central, was unable to attend to-day’s meeting of the Howard Penal Reform League owing to illness. Mr. and Mrs. William lleughan be entertained to-night at the Priscilla tea-rooms by the Auckland branch of the Overseas League. Mr. E. Douglas-Taylor, of Wellington will act as judge of the musical section of the forthcoming musical and elocutionary competitions to be held at Auckland early in June. Mr. Leo Du Chateau arrived by the Limited this morning from Wellington to make arrangements for the Auckland season of Alfred O’Shea, the Australian tenor. Mr. W. J. P. Fitzgerald, representing tho Fuller-Gonsalez Grand Opera Company, has arrived in Wellington to make arrangements for the New Zealand tour. Mr. Austin Farndley, who for the past 10 years has been in charge of Messrs. Newton King. Ltd.’s land department at Stratford, has been appointed assistant manager to Mr. H. E. Abraham. Stratford. Miss Hawley will act as secretary of the Auckland branch of the Howard Penal Reform League during the absence of Dr. Mildred Staley, who leaves on Tuesday by the Aorangi for Honolulu, en route to Europe. Mr. C. Eskell, of Wellington, general manager Cor Universal Films, left Auckland to-day for Rotorua en route to the East Coast, where he will confer with Mr. Alexander Marky, the American film producer, who is making a Maori film at Ohiwa. HOTEL REGISTER Grand.—Mr. Ft. Arlow (Wellington). * * * Commercial.—Mr. A. Julian (To Kuitl), Mr. A. Kilfoyle (Mamaku). Star.—Mr. C. E. H. Zohrab. Mi'. J. Robertson. Mr. G. F. Shepherd (Wellington), Mr. F. G. Moore (Hamilton). Central.—Mr. A. Tyndall (Wellington), Mr. A. Millar (Hamilton). Royal.—Mr. E. Rinaldi (Rotherham). Mr. C. Stanton (Wellington), Mr. J. B. Peake (Christchurch). Mr. J. H. Shea (Wanganui), Mr. R. Simmonds (Taumarunui). Mr. W. J. Sullivan (Edgecombe). Albert.—Mr. S. Triest, Mr. M. Fitzserald, Mr. H. Nicholles (Wellington), Mr. E. Harries (Tologa Bay).