PERSONAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1074, 11 September 1930, Page 9

PERSONAL

Mr. W. Owen Garland, of Auckland, who has been visiting England, leaves on the Rangitane on the return journey on September 26. Messrs. J. I*. Clouston and Xj. L. Hills, of the Staff Division of the Post and Telegraph Department, arrived on the Limited this morning. Mr. J. J- Kearney, assistant postmaster in Auckland, arrived on the Limited this morning from Palmerston North, where he has spent his leave. Mr. A. J. Entriean, Deputy Mayor of Auckland, and Mr. J. Tyler, City Engineer, returned on the Limited this morning after visiting Wellington on city business. Mr. J. A. Peck, general manager in Australia for B .stock’s. Ltd., arrived from the South this morning, and is staying at the Grand Hotel. He is on a business visit to the Dominion. Mr. James Edward Farrell who has been nominated by Canterbury College us a Rhodes’ Scholar, is an ex-student of the Sacred Heart College, Ponsonby. While at Sacred Heart College in 1924, Mr. Farrell won a Senior National Scholarship. Dr. L. J. Comrie, a New Zealander who was well known in meteorological circles in Wellington for some years, has been appointed superintendent of the British Nautical Almanac, in succession to Dr. H. P. Cowell. Dr. Comrie had experience in American observatories before joining the British Nautical Almanac Office. Lieut.-Commander W. IT. Bremner, D. 5.0.. D.S.C., R.N., who has been appointed to the Diomede, was on the Australian station at the outbreak of the Great War, and was present at the capture of Samoa and other German possessions in the Pacific. He then served in a destroyer in the Harwich Force. In the 1919 attack on Kronstadt, Commander Bremner was taken prisoner by Bolsheviks. At the inclusion of the war he passed through the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, the Military Staff College, Carnberley, and then served on the staff of the commander-in-chief. North America, and West Indies sta- ' tion. His last appointment was to H.M.S. Berwick on the China station. HOTEL REGISTER Grand. —Mr. J. A.^ Peck Cargen.—Mr. C. H. Black, Mr. E. C. Hartridge (Wellington). Mr. F. Kernahan (Christchurch). * * * Star.—Mr. R. Cooke (Te Kuiti), Mr. J. Leuchars (Wellington). Central.—Mr. B. L. Hammond, Mr. H. D. Kitto (Wellington), Mr. S. Nelson (New Plymouth). * * * Royal.—Mr. R. Simmons (Taumarunui). Mr. R. Steed (Hawke’s Bay), Mr. C. E. Lambert (Wellington).