PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20730, 14 February 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL

The Governor-General. Viscount Galway, left Auckland for Wellington last night. To-morrow he will attend the Masterton Show and perform the official opening. He will return to Auckland on Saturday.

Archdeacon Mac Murray, of Auck land, has been visiting Hamilton.

Sir Lionel Fletcher. CJ3.E., of London. a director of Dalgety and Company. Limited, is at the Hamilton Hotel.

Mr R. B. Seabrook. of Hamilton, woe a guest at the Auckland Rotary Club's luncheon yesterday.

Mr V. J. Lamer has been elected chairman of directors of thp Auckland Gas Company, Limited, for the ensuing year.

Mr Justice Smith, who has been presiding at the quarterly session of the Supreme Court in Hamilton, which concluded yesterday, has left for Wellington.

The Ven. Archdeacon H. A. Skelton, who was at one time curate of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Auckland, has been appointed Suffragan Bishop of Bedford in the diocese of St. Albans. England.

Messrs D. G. O’Toole (Wanganui R. A. Brown. W. J. Pritchard. R. Lawford, J. Small and C M. White (Auckland) are at the Hamilton Hotel.

Mr F. E. McGallum, manager of the Regent and Cosy Theatres. Masterton. and formerly producer to the Auckland Little Theatre Society, has received notice of his transfer to Nel-

Messrs Stephenson and Turner, of Australia, and Mr R. Farrell, of Auckland. were appointed joint architects for the erection of the proposed main block at the Auckland Hospital by the Hospital Board last night. The decision. which is subject to the approval of the Health Department, was made after a discussion on the possibility of engaging New Zealand architects to undertake the work.