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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 114, 7 February 1935, Page 8

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Vice-Regal. The Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, and Lady Bledisloe paid a visit to St. Mark’s Church School yesterday morning. In the evening their Excellencies were present at a meeting of the New Zealand Numismatic Society, ami his Excellency was presented with ope of tlie medals which has recently been struck by the society. Sir Charles Clifford arrived at Wellington yesterday from Christchurch. Major-General Sir AV. L. 11. SinclairBurgess, General Officer Commanding the New Zealand Military Forces, has returned to Wellington from the South Island. Mr. Justice Johnston is conducting the quarterly session of the Supreme Court at Timaru. He will return to Christchurch at the end of the week. Colonel Sclater, traffic manager for Australia and New Zealand of the Canadian Pacific Railways, who has been visiting th/j South Island, arrived at Wellington' yesterday morning.

' Dr. Baddeley, Bishop of Melanesia, will visit Sydney next month in order to place before the Australian Board of Missions many important matters concerning the welfare of the mission.

'Mr. Justice Stephen, one of the nine Judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, who is at present visiting Wellington in the course of a holiday tour.of New Zealand, occupied a seat on the Supreme Court Bench yesterday during the partial hearing of a ease.

Mr. AV. H. Gumnier, Auckland, is visiting Wellington. Dr. F. P. Furkert, Wellington, is on the staff of the Bolingbroke Hospital, London. Mr. J. P. Ward, counsel for New Zealand Airways, Ltd., loft for Dunedin last evening. Mr. lan Milner, 1934 New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, was the guest of the committee of the London branch of the AVaitaki Old Boys’ Association at a dinner party on January 8. Professor Victor Booth has been oleeted»a member of the association’s committee.

Mr. D. H. Todd has returned to AVellington from the south. Alr.'E. Llewellyn AVilliams left AVellington last evening for Christchurch. Dr. E. F. D’Arth, Dunedin, was a passenger from AVellington for the south last evening. Mr. AVilliam AVallaee, president of the Hospitals Association of New Zealand, will arrive at AVellington to-day. Air. J. Alason, of the J. C. AVilliamson Picture Corporation, left AVellington last evening for the'south. The Rev. AV. AV. Avery was a passenger from AA’cllinglon for the south last evening. Air. AV. A. Flavell, Dunedin, manager of the AVestport Coal Company, arrived at AVellington yesterday morning from the south.

The Rev. A. AVingtield, Vicar o£ Holy Cross' Church, St. Kilda, Dunedin, arrived at AVellingtqn yesterday from the sou til.

Captain F. G. Cadiaz, a retired commander of the Peninsular aud Orient Company, is spending a fishing holiday in New Zealand.

Air. John Farrell, representing J. C. AVilliamson, Ltd., has arrived in AA’ellington to complete arrangements for the production of “Ten Alinute Alibi” and “The AVind and the Hain.”

Colonel J. I’ow, Dominion-secretary of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, was welcomed back after his. serious Illness at the executive meeting yesterday by the chairman, Air, AV. J. Polson, AI.P.

The Rev. David Thorpe, assistant curate at St. Alary’s, Timaru, has been appointed to the charge of Banks Peninsula —a cure which was held by his father, the Rev. F, H. Thorpe, for some years.

Captain G. F. Yerex, of AVellington, the Government’s inspector under the Animal Protection and Game. Act, has received advice that he has been elected a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London.

Air. G. S. Nicoll, secretary of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture, has returned from Dunedin, where the annual conference was held a few days ago. Before returning north Mr. Nicoll, who was born in Gabriel’s Gully, paid a visit to Lawrence and the district round about, renewing many old friendships.

Dr. P. P. Lynch, pathologist to the AVellington Hospital, has left for AVanganui, from which port he will leave by the' steamer Alamari for England. It is his intention to visit tlie laboratories of hospitals and allied institutions of Great Britain and the Continent. He will make a particular point of visiting the headquarters of the British Empire Cancer Campaign and the cancer treatment and research centres of the Continent. Dr. Lynch will return- to AVellington next September.