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Ministerial. The Hon. R. Semple, Minister of Public Works and Transport, will leave Wellington tonight for Christchurch on departmental business. lie will return toward the end of next week. Mr. J. S. Moir, Levin, has been appointed a coroner, according to.a notice gazetted last night. Mr. Robert M. Newcomb’s appointment as Vice-Consul of the United States of America in Wellington has been provisionally recognized, according to a notice gazetted last night, j
Lord Rothermere has made tentative arrangements to travel to New Zealand by the Dominion Monarch, which is to leave England on its maiden voyage on February 17. Lord Rothermere, who is at present travelling on the Continent, will not return to London till early in February. Mr. C. Meredith-Kaye, Christchurch, returned south from Wellington last night.by the steamer express. Dr. T. G. Gray, Director-General of Mental Hospitals, is paying a visit to Auckland.
Mr. T. D. 11. Hall, C.M.G., Clerk of the House of Representatives, is visiting Auckland. Dr. E. Marsden, secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research,, is visiting the West Coast.
Mr. R. B. Tennent, director of the fields division of the Department of Agriculture, is at present in Auckland.
Mr. G. J. Park, principal of the Seddon Memorial Technical College, Auckland, arrived at Wellington from the south yesterday.
Mr. G. H. Woodman, of the head office stall of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Ltd., returned to Wellington yesterday from the south by the steamer express. Mr. G. M. Dillon, general manager in New Zealand for Warner Brothers’ Pictures, returned to Wellington by the Limited express from Auckland yesterday.
Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, Director of School Hygiene, returned to Wellington yesterday from Nelson. She visited the small health camp in the hospital grounds in Pieton and also the larger camp on the racecourse in Richmond, near Nelson.
Mr. Denis V. Dowling, Dunedin, who is a student of singing and pianoforte ar the Royal College of .Music, London, has been awarded the Henry Blower prize for singers, and he has had his opera exhibition renewed for two terms to July, 1939.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 93, 13 January 1939, Page 8
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