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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 110, 3 February 1938, Page 10

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Ministerial. The Hon. F. Jones, PostmasterGeneral, returned to Wellington from the north yesterday morning. The Hon. W. Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, who was to have attended the Feilding Show yesterday, was unable to do so because of a temporary indisposition. The Hon. Mark Fagan, M.L.C., arrived at Wellington from the south yesterday. Mr. H. J. Kelliher, Auckland, and Mrs. Kelliher are visiting Wellington. Sir Harold Beauchamp, "Wellington, left yesterday for Auckland. Mr. L. J. Schmitt, general manager of the Tourist and Publicity ment, is visiting Christchurch. Mr. N. E. (Tingey, Christchurch, left Wellington for the south in Ingt night’s steamer express. Mr. M. H. Wynyard, of the Main . Highways Board, left Wellington for Auckland last night. Mr. F. G. Farrell, president of the Automobile Association (Auckland), and Mr. A. Grayson, a member of the council, 'are visiting Wellington. Squadron Leader A. C. Stedman, pilot instructor to the Canterbury Aero Club, left Wellington last night for Christchurch. Dr. J. C. Lopdeil, who has been appointed medical officer at Vavau, left Auckland in the Matua.on Monday to take up his new duties. ■ Mr. L. L. Clark, of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Limited, left Wellington last night for Auckland. Mr. C. G. White, a director of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Limited, arrived at Wellington from the south yesterday. Mr. H. W. Tite, late of Zeitoun, Egypt, and formerly Egyptian director of W. D. and H. O. Wills, is visiting New Zealand with Mrs. Tite. They are at present at Rotorua. Mr. L. McCullough, formerly of Christchurch and now of Sydney, arrived at Wellington from the south yesterday morning on his way back to Sydney. * Mr. H. Digby Smith, Commissioner of Pensions, left Wellington for tlie jiorth by the Limited express last night. He will leave Auckland for Sydney by the Wanganella to-night. Mr. J. R. Watt, 8.C0m., Wellington, income tax inspector, was presented with a cheque by his colleagues last Monday. Mr: Watt is leaving Wellington to enter business on bis own account at Feilding. Mr. J. A. Grimwood, of the Transpacific and Islands Services Department of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Limited, arrived at Wellington from the south yesterday. Mr. G. H. Mackley, C.M.G., general manager of New Zealand Railways, Mr. G. J. Bertinshaw, chief engineer, and Mr. G. G. Stewart, publicity manager, who have been visiting Auckland on departmental business during the past few days, returned to Wellington last evening. Mr. G. M. Smith, managing director of John Burns and Co., Ltd., Auckland, was elected president of the New Zealand Hardware Merchants’ Guild and president of the New Zealand Galvanised Sheet Guild at the annual general meetings of these bodies, held in Wellington on February 1. Captain J. F. Spring Brown, Sydney, formerly commodore of the Union Steam Ship Company’s fleet, is touring New Zealand in preparation for his pilotage of the Empress of Britain while she is in Dominion waters. He is a guest at the Hotel Waterloo, and is accompanied by Mrs. Spring Brown.