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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 300, 17 December 1923, Page 7

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— \ Mr. F. Stewart (Sydney) and Mr. J. t W. Knights (Whangarei). are staying at •_. the Star Hotel. 1 Inspector C. R. Broberg, of the Police j Commissioner's Office, Wellington, has \ been promoted to superintendent. Mr. and Mrs. A Hatrick, of Sydney, \ are at present on a visit to Auckland, t They will leave for Gisborne shortly. j Mr. J. L. R Bloomfield and Mr. Trevor < Bloomfield, of Auckland, returned to this I city by the Ruapehu this afternoon. t Mr. William Scott, organising manager 1 for the New Zealand* Picture Supplies, , 1 is at present on a visit to Sydney. t Mr. W. T. C. Airey, New Zealand J Rhodes Scholar for 1920, is expected to , ' arrive in Auckland by the Niagara on t : December 27. ; Mr. E. Grayndler, secretary of the Aus--1 tralian Workers' Union, who has been » on a visit to New Zealand, has sailed for Melbourne. ' Messrs. C. J, McCarthy, J. Ramsay, ' and W. G. K. Wright, of Wellington, ' arrived in Auckland yesterday morning, j ' They are staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. H. Alan Bell has been appointed ) 1 to the Waikato Hospital Board as the ! representative of the districts of Te r Awamutu, Cambridge, Morrinsville, and ' Te Aroha. 1 Mr. E. C. Cntten, S.M., has been appointed chairman of the licensing com- ' mittees for the districts of Auckland, j • Waitemata, and Parnell, vice Mr. J. W. ! 1 Poynton, S.M. The Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister of Edu- ' cation, is expected' to return to New ' Zealand on Boxing Day. The Austrar lian trip has unfortunately not com- . pletely restored his health. ' Mr. AD. Carson, New Zealand mana--5 ger for Messrs. Richardson, Orr and Co., E Ltd., left Wellington on Friday on a • business visit to Sydney and Melbourne. • s He was accompanied by Mrs. Carson. r Mr. J. H. Upton has intimated to 1 his fellow directors in the Bank of New 5 Zealand- his intention to retire at the • conclusion of his present term, March 31, 1924, when he will have occupied that position for eleven years. Dr. W. C. Sadler, Anglican Bishop of Nelson, has been presented with a gold pectoral cross by parishioners and friends in the Cheviot district. Mr. J. Lawson, formerly of Timaru, but now of London, arrived in Auckland to-day by the Ruaa pehu. He is staying at the Royal Hotel. c Mr. F. R. Callaghan, of Auckland, has 0 been appointed information officer at the a British Empire Exhibition. Mr. Callae ghan is agricultural instructor to the I" Auckland Education Board and secren tary of the Auckland Winter Show Com- i '- niittee and of the Farmers' Winter j g School classes at Ruakura State Farm. I « Mr. Raul Prebisch, of the Financial j n Secretariat of the Argentine Republic, is at present on a visit to the Dominion. Mr. Prebisch has been appointed a commissioner by the Government of the Argentine to visit the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, to inquire into the systems of land and income tax in those countries, and also to inquire into the methods of statistical compilation.