PERSONAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20269, 11 August 1937, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr Justloe Callan will arrive in Hamilton on Monday to preside at the quarterly ressions of the Supreme Court, which open on Tuesday. Mr. Woodbine Porriare, of Wellington, is at the Hamilton Hotel. Mr C. B. Jones, of Cambridge, was a visitor at the Auckland Rotary Club’s luncheon yesterday. Messrs W. I. Combe, 8.A., and R. L. Meek have been nominated as Victoria University College candidates for the 1938 New Zealand Rhodes Scholarships. Ths Rev. M. A. Gow, of St. Peter’s Church, Grey Lynn, was last night elected by the Auckland Presbytery as its moderator for the ensuing six months, in succession to the Rev. J. W. McKenzie, of Epsom. Dr. Cyril Norwood, president of St. John’s College, Oxford, who visited New Zealand with other educationists recently, has been elected president of the Modern Churchmen’s Union in succession to the Dean of St. Paul s, Dr. W. R. Matthews. Messrs C. J. Stanavvay, J. Robinson, T. E. Dowdee, C. S. Conningham, C. 11. Von Sturmer (Auckland;, J. Wardell, G. Wardell (Dunedin), P. Evans, (Gisborne), H. D. Evans (Ruatoria), W. E. Hill and M. Smith (Wellington) are at the Hamilton Hotel. Sir Walter Huggard has been selected for the combined posts of President of the Special Courts in Swaziland and Bechuanaiand, Judicial Commissioner and legal adviser to the High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland, says a message from London. Professor F. L. W. Wood, professor of history at Victoria University College, Wellington, left Auckland yesterday by the Aorangi for Vancouver, en route to Geneva. Professor Wood, who is president of the League of Nations Union of New Zealand, is to be temporary collaborates on the secretariat during the meeting of the League Assembly, and he intends to spend about three months studying current affairs in England, France, Germany and Italy.