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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 172, 18 April 1939, Page 8

PERSONAL

Vice-Regal. Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and Lady Galway left Wellington yesterday morning in the Government steamer Matai for a short official visit tfx Picton. Ministerial. The Hon. 11. G. R. Mason, AttorneyGeneral, will return to Wellington from Auckland today. Sir Victor Wilson left Wellington for the south last night bj’ the steamer express. Sir William Hunt, managing director of Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., was a passenger for Auckland yesterday by air from Wellington. The Hon. Mr. Justice Blair is assisting at the Supreme Court session in Auckland. Dr. R. A. Bakewell, Petone, returned by the Awatea from Sydney yesterday. Dr. P. P. Lynch: left Wellington last night for the south by the steamer express. Mr-. T. Kelly, general manager of Woolworths N.Z.), Ltd., returned from Sydney by the Awatea yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. John Farrell, yho have been paying a visit to Hastings, are to leave on a holiday visit to Sydney by the Awatea today. Mr. A. J. Heighway, managing director of National Magazines Ltd., travelled north from Wellington last night by the Limited express. Mr. L. G. Smither, Wellington, chief inspector for New Zealand of the A.P.A. Assurance Co., Ltd., travelled to Christchurch yesterday by air. Mr. T. R. Turnbull, of the Northern Roller Milling Company, Ltd., travelled south from Wellington by the steamer express last night. Mr. W. W. Duff, , New Zealand manager for R.K.O. Radio Pictures, will leave on a visit to Australia today by the Awatea. Mr. 1-1. 11. Higgins, Wellington, director of the Empire Box Company, Ltd., was a passenger for Nelson by air yesterday. Mr. G. H. Mackley, General Manager of Railways, was a passenger for the south last night by the steamer express. Mr. R. B. Tennent, Wellington, director of the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture, returned by the Awatea yesterday from’ Sydney.

Professor J. Malcolm, of the Otago Medical School, is returning to New Zealand by the Akaroa, which is to arrive at Auckland from Soutlianiptou on Friday. Mr. A. S. Masters, manager in Christchurch of Kodak (N.Z.), Ltd., for the last 20 years and a (Jircetor of the company, has been transferred to Auckland.

Mr. C. E. Robertson, manager of the blood and stud slock' department of Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., left Wellington yesterday to join the Aorangi, which will sail from Auckland for Vancouver today. Mr. Robertson, who will have charge of the two Romney rams that have been sent to England for the Royal Centenary Show In Windsor, will visit various cities in Canada, the United States and Great Britain, carrying a number of orders for horses, cattle, thoroughbreds, sheep and pigs for New Zealand buyers. He will return via South Africa, investigating the market there for New Zealand sheep.