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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22358, 23 March 1938, Page 10

Personal Items

The Hon. H. T. Armstrong, Minister for Labour, after completing departmental business, left last evening for Wellington. The Minister for Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) will be joined at Nelson this morning by the Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister for Mines, who will accompany him throughout a tour of the Buller electorate. On Monday night Mr Semple addressed an audience of 1100 at Blenheim and was later entei*tained by the branch of the Labour Party and last night the Theatre Royal at Nelson was packed for his meeting. Mr Semple inspected the aerodrome and received deputations at Nelson yesterday. ,^ r John Wood, Engineer in Chief of the Public Works Department, joined Mr Semple yesterday, and will travel with him to Jacksons Bay.

The Hon. W. Lee Martin, Minister for Agriculture, has returned to Wellington from the Waikato.

Mr R. McPhei'son. general manager of the Wheat Committee, returned yesterday from a visit to Australia.

Mr B. E. H. Tripp (Timaru) will leave for Wellington to-day to attend a meeting of the Wool Publicity and Scientific Research Board Mr L. L. Cordery, of Christchurch, who will leave shortly for a trip to Great Britain, was extended best wishes by the president (Mr A. E. Kincaid) for the mcmbei's, at the weekly luncheon of the Christchurch Rotary Club yesterday.

Mr W. J. Mason has been appointed actingpresident of the Wellington Young Men’s Christian Association. He will occupy the position during the absence of Mr R. H. Nimmo, who Will leave shortly on a world tour. Captain F. W. Collins, who has been appointed master of the Union Company’s new freighter, Korowai, sailed from Auckland in the Aorangi yesterday f or England. Mr J. M. A. Ilott, of Wellington, left in the Aorangi from Auckland yesterday. He will be away from the Dominion for about five months on a business trip to America and England.

Mr Oliver Duff, formerly editor of ‘The Press,” has been appointed editor of the publications which are to be made for the Dominion centennial in 1940, and has taken up his duties in Wellington. —Parliamentary Reporter.

Sir Stenson Cooke, general secretary of the Automobile Association of Great Britain, who is visiting New Zealand, arrived in Chiistchurch by the steamer express yesterday mornng. Mr G. W. Hutchison was a passenger from the north by the inter-island steamer yesterday morning.

Dr. Martin Tweed arrived yesterday morning from the north by the steamer express. Mr E. F. Daly, who has been awarded the 1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship, received his secondary education at the Christchurch Boys’ High School'. He entered Canterbury University College in 19.34. In 1936 he tied for the Sir George Grey Scholarship and was also awarded the Haydon Prize in Physics. In 1937 he graduated B.Sc., and at the last university examinations he passed the examination for M.Sc. with first-class honours in chemistry. Mr Daly is the third old boy of the Christchurch Boys’ High School to be awarded the 1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship in the last four years, the other two being Messrs J. W. Mitchell and I. Lauder, who are at present in England.