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The Minister of Education (Hon. H. Atmore) will return to Wellington from Nelson to-morrow. The Public Service Commissioner (Mr. P. Verschaffielt) and the Assistant Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. A. D. Park), who were members of the departmental delegation to Western Samoa, returned to Wellington on Monday. Sir James Mills, chairman of directors of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, was among the passengers who arrived at Wellington from Sydney on Monday. He is on a health-recruiting trip. He was ordered from England by his medical advisers to Egypt, and while there he decided to extend his tour to New Zealand, being convinced that the climate of the Dominion was quite as health-restoring as that of Egypt. He made the trip to Australia in the P. and O. liner Comorin. Sir James Mills is a member of the London Board of the Bank of New Zealand, and while in the Dominion will confer with the board of directors of the bank here.
Mr. T. C. Webster, of Auckland, is a visitor to Wellington. Mr. Walter A. Tanner, censor of Films, has also been appointed Registrar of Films, under the new Act which came into operation yesterday.
Mr. J. A. Grimwood, of the Union Company’s headquarters staff, who had a narrow escape from death when his car was smashed by a passing train at Mellings just before Christmas, is making a rapid recovery, and already is able to walk about his garden at the Hutt with the aid -of a crutch. He anticipates being able to return to his duties in the course of a few weeks.
Sir Thomas Clement, principal of the firm of Andrew Clement and Son, provision merchants, of London and Glasgow, arrived by the Makura on Monday in his second business visit to New Zealand.
Messrs. H. Tanner and H. Dawson, two well-known English cotton spinners, arrived here by the Makura on Monday, and will remain in the Dominion for about three months. Dr. N. C. Andersen and Mr. A. Mon, the former ship’s surgeon and chief biologist and the latter wireless operator and hydrographer to the Danish scientific expedition under Professor J. Schmidt, left for the north on Monday-
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 83, 2 January 1929, Page 10
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