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Evening Star, Issue 21634, 1 February 1934, Page 9

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—Vice-Regal.— Their Excellencies Lord and Lady Bledisloe and party .sailed this morning by the Government steamer Matai en route to Waitangi for the celebrations there. They will visit two lighthouses and will put' in at Kawau to-morrow night to watch, the Royal Yacht Squadron’s regatta on Saturday, and will arrive at Russell on Saturday night. They are due to return to - Auckland on February 16 (states a Wellington Association message). ■—Ministerial.— There will be an exodus of Ministers of the Crown from Wellington at the end of the present week. With the exception of the Minister of Public Works (Hon. J. Bitchener), who will remain, in Wellington to deal with urgent business, all the Ministers will leave either to-morrow or on Saturday to take part in the celebrations at Waitangi. They will probably return to Wellington on Thursday or Friday of next week. Mr, Robert M'Millan,. formerly Pro-curator-Fiscal of Scotland, has been, spending a holiday in Dunedin, and left by train to-day lor Christchurch, proposing to return via India to the Old Country. Mr D. M'Dougall, M.P.‘, and Mr Hargest, M.P., passed through Dunedin this morning on their way to the Waitangi celebrations. The Rev. BJ. J. Orange left-by the 11.35 train to-day for his home in Wellington. Mr Reg. Tapley went north by train this morning to embark on the Marama for Melbourne. Mr J. A. Whitton, of Timaru, is on a holiday visit to Dunedin. Advice had been received that Dr W.G. Bridgman, a graduate of the Otago University, who has been in England during the last three years doing postgraduate work in ear, nose, and throat, will return to New Zealand about the end of April. Mr John Mac Kay, who was nine years of age when first brought to Otago by the barque Storm Cloud in 1860, and resided in Dunedin from 1871 to 1896, has been revisiting this city, renewing acquaintance with such of his old friends as are left, enjoying detail tours of Dunedin and its environs, and noting with pleasure permanent improvements that have further beautified the town and its surr roundings, and before he left this morning on his return to Wellington he remarked to a reporter that he was more than ever delighted with the picturesqueness and the commercial solidity of Dunedin. He spent his boyhood at Milton, started a printing , business in Princes street (where Wilkinson’s Pharmacy now stands) in 1872, was joined for a while by Mr (afterwards Sir) George Fenwick, printed the ‘ Saturday Advertiser ’ for Messrs John Bathgate and Thomas Bracken, sold out Ins business to Risk and Munro and took a trip Home, had charge of the ‘ Star ’ jobbing department on coming back, was made Government printer in 1896 and held that position for _ twenty years, retiring on superannuation. Sergeant J. Macßae, of Port Chalmers, left by the express this morning to spend his annual leave in the North Island. The Grand Hotel guest list contains the following new names:—Mr T. Kawamura (Japan), Messrs J. W. Swift and T. Butler (London), Mr W. J.:j Coss (Sydney), Mr and Mrs T. P.-l Fotheringham (Wellington), and Me C. J. Ferrier (Christchurch). !