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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 199, 20 May 1936, Page 10

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Vice-Regal. Her Excellency Lady Galway visited St. Mary’s Homes, Karori, yesterday morning. Major T. J. King left Wellington last night for the south. Mr. W. H. Bennett is a patient in the Bowen Street Hospital. The Rev. J. R. Blanchard has returned to Wellington from Christchurch. Mr. Geoffrey Goodwin left by aeroplane yesterday for Rotorua. Mr. E. C. Hartridge, of J. J. Niven and Co., was a passenger for the south last night from Wellington. Mr. S. L. Partridge, Christchurch, arrived at Wellington yesterday on a holiday visit to tiie North Island. Mr. A. Tyndall, Under-Secretary for Mines, has returned to Wellington from the South Island. Colonel Holgate, president of the New Zealand Coal Mine Owners’ Association, travelled north last night, from Wellington. The Rev. R. C. Blumer. vice-principal of Achimota College, Gold Coast, was the guest of honour at the Rotary Club’s luncheon yesterday. Mr. L. J. Schmitt, general manager of the Department, of Industries and Commerce, Tourist and Publicity, left Wellington for the South Island last night.

Mr. J. Lynch, of Wellington, will sail to-day In the Federal liner Middlesex as seventh engineer. He will be missed in Rugby football circles, as he was a prominent forward of the Hutt club’s first fifteen and lias also represented Wellington. Mr. H. D. Broadhead, lecturer in classics at Canterbury University College, accompanied by Mrs. Broadhead, will leave this evening for Wellington to join the Rotorua for a trip to England. Mr. and Mrs. Broadhead will return next February. Mr. J. P. Kenny has resigned from the secretaryship of the Napier Harbour Board, after having occupied the position since 1898. The board, in accepting his resignation and expressing regret at the pending termination of his services, granted him 12 months’ leave of absence on full pay. Mr. A. W. Hawley, secretary of the Wellington Rotary Club and representative of the . Society of Motor Manufacturers, is to leave on a visit to 'Canada and England by the Niagara on Tuesday next. Mr. Hawley will re turn via the Suez Canal. At yesterday’s Rotary luncheon Mr. W. Gray Young (president) extended the best wishes of the members of the club, and hoped that Mr Hawley would have a pleasant trip and a safe return,