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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 71, 16 December 1938, Page 10

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Sir Charles Norwood travelled from Wellington to Dunedin by airliner yesterday.

Sir Lionel Fletcher, a director of Dalgety and C 0.., and Mr. L. Speakman, general manager, are to visit Australia and New Zealand shortly. Mr. Speakman is expected to reach. New Zealand late in January or early in February. Sir Lionel sailed for Australia on December 8 and will probably arrive in New Zealand toward the middle of February.

Mr. S. G. H. Hogg. Pahiatua, has been appointed a coroner.

Mr. F. A. Bullock has been appointed conductor of the Royal Christchurch Musical Society.

Mr. F. W. Smith has been appointed a member of the Wairarapa Licensing Committee.

.Mr. A. Thomson has been reappointed a member of the Marlborough Land Board.

Mr. A. R. Galbraith arrived at Wellington by the steamer express from the South Island yesterday. Mr. W. A. Mackintosh, Fairlie, was recently elected a member of the Canterbury Land Board, representing Crown, tenants.

Mr. C. T. Halsted, manager in New Zealand for Cable and Wireless, Limited, arrived from Auckland by the Limited express from Auckland yesterday.

Mr. Eric E. Wablquist, touring manager of the Nicola Company, is in Wellington finalizing arrangements for the presentation of this company at the Opera House on December 24. Mr. L. J. Schmitt, general manager of the Tourist and Publicity Department, who has been visiting the South Island, returned to Wellington by the steamer express yesterday. Mr. G. M. Dillon, general manager in New Zealand for Warner Brothers, who has been visiting Auckland, returned to Wellington yesterday by the Limited express from Auckland. Mr. E. L. Cullen, M.P. for Hawke’s Bay, who has been visiting Wairoa, where he attended prize-givings at the Convent School, the District High School and the main primary school, returned to Hastings last night. He will leave for Wellington on Monday. Lieutenant E. A. Nicholson, R.N., is expected to reach Auckland by the Awatea on January 16 to take over his duties as signal officer for ships with' the New Zealand division of the Royal Navy. Dr. D. A. Arnott, Fendalton, Christchurch. Ms passed the primary examination for membership of the Royal College of Surgeons. Dr. Arnott; who is a graduate of the Otago Medical School, lias been doing post-graduate work in Loudon for two years. The Ven. Archdeacon C. C. Harper, formerly well known in the Wellington Diocese, has retired from active parish work and is living in Gloucestershire. When he went to London he was given the parish of Newington, and then he became rector of Ford, succeeding the late Bishop Neligan in that living. Mr. Donald B. Smith, 8.E., son of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Smith, Montreal Street, Christchurch, who left Christchurch in June and subsequently joined the engineering firm of Callender and Company, London, has been appointed assistant engineer to the Malayan Public Service. Mr. Smith is a graduate of Canterbury University College. While in London he worked under Captain A. M. Hamilton, the wellknown New Zealand engineer and author of the book "Road Through Kurdistan."