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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 162, 5 April 1938, Page 10

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Vice-Regal. The Governor-General, Lord Galway, who left Wellington at the weekend attended by Captain R. StuartFrench, A.D.C., arrived at Taupo on Sunday night. Lady Galway, attended by Lieutenant S. R. Ie H. LombardHobson, A.D.C., R.N., arrived at Taupo yesterday. Major and Mrs. R. G. G. Byron left Wellington yesterday morning.

The vice-regal party is spending a short fishing holiday at The Spa, Taupo, after which their Excellencies will proceed north. They will be in residence at Government House, Auckland, until early in June. ;

Mr. H. A. Le Pine, Lower Hutt, was a passenger in the steamer express to the south last night.

Mr. F.,G. Bickford, Dunedin, arrived at Wellington yesterday from the south in the steamer express. Mr. J. T. Martin, director of Wright, Stephenson and Co,, Ltd., will leave on a visit to Australia by the Awatea to-night. Mr. D. J. Cummings, Commissioner of Police, was a passenger -in the Limited express for the north last night. Mr. C. L. Mowlem will leave Palmerston North this week on a holiday visit to Australia, where he will spend several weeks.

The Rev. C. F. Webster, recently private chaplain to the Bishop of Gibraltar, has been appointed vicar of'Mangaweka and will arrive by the -Rotorua next month. The Rev. M. L. Underhill is expected to arrive from England shortly after Easter and will be instituted vicar ot Ohakune on April 26. The Rev. A. F. R. Parr, at present vicar of Bombay in the Auckland diocese, will join the staff of Christ Church, Wanganui, after Easter. Mr. W, Milsop, manager of the George Street branch of the Union Bank of Australia, Sydney, arrived at Wellington yesterday for a fortnight’s tour of the Dominion.

Mr' R. C. Horton arrived at Wellington yesterday from Auckland. He will join—the Rangitatn • for England when she sails from Wellington on April 7. Mr, S. F. Martin, managing director of the Texas Company (Australasia), Ltd., Wellington, left in tlie Monterey from Auckland yesterday for the United States. Mr. Valentine Duff was sworn in as employers’ representative on the Second Court of Arbitration by Mr. Justice Hunter at Wellington yesterday, and took his seat on the bench for the first time.

Dr. W. S. Wylie, Palmerston North, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Awatea from Sydney, where he has been attending the conference of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

Commander H. D. Owen, R.N., arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Awatea, on his way back to England, after two years on the Australian station as commander of H.M.A.S. Penguin. He was accompanied by Mrs. Owen and their young son. Dr. C. S. M. Hopkirk, D.V.Sc., Wellington, is to sail by the Awatea to-night for an extended tour overseas. He is to visit Australia, South Africa, Great Britain a’nd the Continent, returning via the United States of America.. He is to represent the Department of Agriculture at the International VeterinaryConference at Zurich, and at the Empire Veterinary Congress at Loudon, besides visiting tlie main veterinary research stations in tlie various countries. Dr. Hopkirk expects to be absent from New Zealand about nine months.