PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 141, 11 March 1938, Page 10

PERSONAL

The Hon. R. Semple, Minister of Public Works and Transport, will leave i Wellington to-day for Napier, where this evening he will attend a reception to Sir Stenson Cooke, secretary of the Automobile Association (England). Tomorrow Mr. Semple will inspect flood damage and discuss river . protection work in the Hawke’s Bay district. In the afternoon he will lay the founda-tion-stone of the new Government buildings at Napier, and in the evening will give a public address. He is to return to Wellington on Bunday. | Mr. J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M., has left Wellington for the north. He will return on March 16. , Mr. James Fletcher left Wellington for the north by the Limited express last night. The Hon. Eliot R. Davis, M.L.C., arrived at Wellington by the Limited express yesterday. Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, Director of School Hygiene, who has been paying an official visit to Hawke’s Bay, has returned to Wellington. Mr. G. G. Stewart, publicity manager for the Railways Department, was a passenger from Auckland by the Limited express yesterday. Mr, W. J. Heslehurst, the wellknown tour director and organiser, left Wellington for Auckland by the Limited express last night. Mr. R. T. Meredith, Sbuthlund, president of the New Zealand Rugby Union, arrived in Wellington yqsterday to attend a meeting of the council of the union. Mr. A. R. McElwain, of the FullerHayward Theatre Corporation, Ltd., left for Auckland last evening. Mr. McElwain will conduct a forthcoming personal appearance tour of Count Felix von Luckner. The Rev. Michael Underhill, curate of Millom Parish, Cumberland, will leave for New Zealand in March. Mr. Underhill has been at Millom for the last two years and is leaving for the Dominion at the request of the Bishop of Wellington.

Mr. L. W. Wales, West Australia, is visiting his brother, Mr. J. Wales, Waikaklki, Carterton, the former’s arrival marking the first meeting of the brothers since their return from the war. Mr. 1,. W. Wales Is engaged in the dairy industry at Brunswick June tion, West Australia. Hon. F. Waite, M.L.C., arrived at Wellington yesterday from the south. Mr. Waite will be one of the New Zealand representatives at the Empire primary producers’ conference to be held in Sydney. There will also be representatives at the conference from England and Scotland, Canada, Rhodesia, South Africa and Australia.