PERSONAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 850, 19 December 1929, Page 11

PERSONAL

The Governor-General, Sir Charles and Lady Alice Fcrgusson arrived in Timaru yesterday on a farewell visit. Tho weather was wet, but this did not Prevent thousands attending tho farewell gatherings.—P.A. Mr. It- McKenzie, a director- of the v, xv- Zeal nd ' I perative .1 >:iiry Company, Ltd., is staying at the Commercial Hotel. Mr. A. M. Samuel, M.P.*for Thames, w ho has been ordered to take a rest after his recent illness, is spending the next six weeks in the Rotorua district. Mr. R. A. Cleal, deputy registrar of the Supremo Court, and clerk of awards, was admitted as a solicitor i.v Mr. J u ’ i Smil h today. Mr. Northcroft moved for the admission. Mr. W. Page*: Gale, of JDunedin, has been appointed Dunedin city organist .it a salary of £SOO a year, the appointment to date from August 1, 1930. In the meantime Dr. Price, of Melbourne, will tako up the duties.— P.A. Dr. Alfred Clark, formerly of Auckland. has been made a grant for two years b.v the Medical Research Oon%mittee of tho British Colonial Office, in recognition of the food research work which he has been engaged upon for the last two years in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Colonel P. < ’lenell Fenwick, C.M.G., of Christchurch, has been appointed by Lord Baden Powell Dominion Chief Commissioner of tho Boy Scouts, in succession to General .Andrew, according to cable advice received in Gisborne. —P.A. Lord Bledisloe an\j La<*y Bledisloe were given a farewell by the Cloucest"rshire Society at its annual dinner. The Earl of Wemygs said tho whole country would miss them. r . 'hey could ill be spared. Lord Bledisloe said he hoped he would carry out his mission as Governor-General of New Zealand to the satisfaction of the King and of his Gloucestershire friends. HOTEL REGISTER Grand. —Mr. E. Macmillan (London), Mr. D. M. Foreman (Christchurch), Mr. L. Steel (Hastings), Mr. T. Holst (Sydney), Mr. F. Burnett (Wellington). * * * Cargert.—Air. E. M. Silk (Wanganui). Central.—Air. E. F. Kain (Wellington), Mr. D. M. Arthur, Afr. A. Davis (Napier), Air. ;T. Clulow (Rotorua), Air. E. Alack ay (To Kuiti), Air. J. Stone (Dunedin), Mr. W. J. Bouttell (Sydney). * * * Royal.—Mr. J. H. Prosser (Christchurch), Air. A. E. Harris (Gisborne), Mr. C. AI. Wilson (Dunedin).