PERSONAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 630, 5 April 1929, Page 9

PERSONAL

The Governor-General. Sir Charles fereusson, will attend the annual meeting of the .Mission to Seamen on Monday evening. Mr. E. w. Jordan, of Tirau. is visiting Auckland. Mr. Mclsaacs, of Hinuera, is in Auckland. Mr. Thomas Martin, proprietor of the aeeent Theatre. Mnrrinsville, is at present in Auckland. Mr. R- A - LiPPineott returned this morning from a visit to Palmerston North. T. Snow, railway land officer, is visiting Auckland on departmental businew. Mr. W. J Holds worth, chairman of the Auckland Power Board, returned from Wellington this morning- by the Limited. Mr. J- Henrys. racing handicapper, returned from the South this morning on Ihe Limited. He was accompanied by Mrs. Henrys. Mr. M. J. Savage, M.P., and Mr. W. parry. M.P.. returned to Auckland this morning after attending the Labour conference in Wellington. \lr. A. Burns was reappointed the Auckland Education Board’s representative on the Auckland Grammar School Board. The Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle, Minister . f Internal AffafTir?, joined the Limited i t Frankton Junction last evening en oute for Wellington. Mrs. V. Donaldson and Mr. W. H. < rawford were appointed to the Whangarei High School Board by the Auckland Education Board this morning. Mr. W. Me Hardy Forman, managing .lirector of General Motors New Zealand, Ltd., will leave Auckland on the Niagara on Tuesday, and with 22 other ui.naging directors of the International General Motors’ organisation irom all • iver the world, will be a delegate at a (inference which is to be held near New York. He will return tr New Zealand in August. Mr. F. S. Pope, Assistant Director- • leneral of Agriculture, who is retiring on superannuation after 43 years in the service, was yesterday bid farewell by members of the staff. Dr. C. J. Reakes, Director of Agriculture, said he did not know of any member of the service more conscientious and thorough. One of Mr. Pope’s most outstanding works was his reorganisation of the department. Dr. Reakes presented Mr. Pope with a wristlet watch, u silver jug, a silver teapot, a bag of golf clubs and an easy chair. HOTEL REGISTER Grand: Dr. A. F. Faulkner (Hastings), Mr. H. D. Batetrsby (Derbyshire), Mr. M. Stuart (California), Mr. M. D. Dowling (San Francisco), Mr. W. E. Browne (Bagdad), Air. W. A. Appleton, Mr. G. Eskell (Wellington). Star: Mr. R. McCallum (Blenheim), Mr. A. S. Bradley (Helensville), Mr. ’I. B. Failover (Mangavveka), Mr. J. L. Bennett (Palmerston North), Mr. W. J. Heyting (Wellington). Central: Mr. O. M. Hope (Hamilton), Mr. A. Ternan, Mr. M. Alsorn, Mr. E. Tait (Wellington), Mr. M. Kingsley. Mr. C. J. Davidson (Dargaville). Mr. A C. Falconer (Christchurch). Royal: Mr. C. H. Bennett (Christchurch), Mr. G. Cornfoot (Otorohanga), Mr. T. A. Finlayson, Mr. L. A. Johnson (Whangarei). Mr. J. C. Lilmour (Waiuku), Mr. F. Robertson ‘Wellington). Cable Jottings N.s.w. POLICE CHIEF.—The New Wales Commissioner of Police. Mr. James Mitchell, lias applied for leave of absence, as a preliminary to retiring from the service.—A.P.A. LESSON FROM N.Z.—Mr. D. 11. Drummond, New South Wales Minister of Education, will sail from Sydney by the Maunganui to-day for Wellington. to study child welfare and the treatment of juvenile delinquents.— A.P.A. PURIFYING COAL GAS.—The officials of the Berlin municipal gas "'orks are secretly conducting experiments with a view to extracting the Poisons from coal gas in order to prevent asphyxiation thereby.—A.P.A. WOOD - CHOPPING CONTEST. — he 15in underhtand chop championship of New South Wales, at the Royal ®*ow, Sydney, to-day, resulted: A. Murrell, 1; M. McCarthy, 2. Time, 1 min 12sec.—A.P.A. ENGINEERS DRAT 11—The death las occurred of Mr. E. M. de Burgh, mje chief engineer of the New South 'ales Public Works Department, who supervised a large number of national undertakings, including dams for the tupply 0 f water to Sydney, and the River irrigation scheme. —