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Ministerial. The Rt. Hon. P. Eraser, Prime Minister, will return to Wellington today from Auckland. The Hon. R. Semple, Minister of National Service, will return to Wellington today from the South Island. The Hou. 11. T. Armstrong, Minister of Public Works, will return to Wellington today from the South Island. The Hon. J. G. Barclay, Minister of Agriculture, left Wellington last night for Oamaru, to open the national flower show there today. He will return to Wellington tomorrow morning. The Hon. P. K. Paikea, representative of the Native race on the Executive Council, will return to Wellington from the Kaipara district, North Auckland, by the Limited express this morning. Sir Harry Batterbee, High Commissioner for the United King'dom, will return to Wellington from Auckland this morning. He will leave Wellington for Feilding tomorrow, and will visit Dannevirke on Thursday, returning to Wellington on Friday. Mr. Noel Coward left Auckland for San Francisco by flying-boat yesterday. Mr. J. A. Lee, M.P., left for the south by last night’s steamer express. Mr. F. B. Stevens, Internal Affairs Department, Wellington, is visiting Auckland. Mr. Heddle Nash was among the passengers who left Wellington for Lyttelton last night. The Hon. T. F. O’Byrne, M.L.C., Invercargill, arrived at Wellington from the south yesterday. Dr. M. H. Watt, Director-General of Health, has returned to Wellington after a tour of northern hospitals. Mr. R. E. Price, chairman of the Waterfront Control Commission, returned to Wellington from Auckland yesterday. Mr. D. McMillan, sales manager of L. D. Nathan and Co., Ltd., Auckland, is staying at the Waterloo Hotel, Wellington. Mr. Algar Williams, Christchurch, who lias been visiting Wairarapa, passed through Wellington on his return home yesterday. The Rev. Paul Kirkham, Vicar of Motueka, has been appointed Vicar of Holy Trinity, Grey mouth, states a Press Association message. He will be inducted on April 6. Mr. Gordon Short, a member of the Music Teachers’ Registration Board, who has been attending the annual conference of the Music Teachers’ Association -of New Zealand in Auckland, returned to Wellington yesterday. In Carterton on the way back Mr. Short gave a recital to Sisters of Mercy of tlie district.

31 r .'Andersen Tyrer, the English composer, conductor, and pianist, who has been in New Zealand for nearly a year, is to leave New Zealand for Australia toward the end of next month. After conducting examinations in the Corn■monwealth, he is to go on a similar mission to South Africa, after which ho hopes to visit his children in England. He will be accompanied by Hrs. Tyrer. Both have made many friends ir New Zealand, and they hope it will not be long before they will have an opportunity of revisiting the Dominion.