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Evening Star, Issue 21879, 16 November 1934, Page 11

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—Ministerial. — ’ The Prime Minister - (Right Hon. G* W, Forbes) left Wellington for the south last evening.' .. The New Zealand Ministerial delegation, which is to carry out discussions mainly on . trade questions with Commonwealth Ministers, left Wellington for Australia" by "'the Monowai yesterday evening. The .members ,of the . delegation, jphich will ha absent from New Zealand for about a ihonth, are: The Minister of Finance (Right Hon. J. G. Coates) . and Mrs Coates, the Minister of Industries and Commerce (Hon. R. Masters) and Mrs Masters, Dr G. Craig (Comptroller of Customs), Dr: R. •M. Campbell (private secretary to the Minister of Finance),and Miss H. D. Montague (personal secretary to the Minister of Finance).' One of the main items for discussion will be meat, and another will be with regard to the position of the commercial banks in Australia and New Zealand.

As it is expected that Messrs Coates and Masters will be absent in Australia for a month, their principal Cabinet duties have been temporarily distributed, the Prime Minister taking Finance and Customs, while _ Mr Coates’s portfolio of Transport will be administered by Mr Bitchener, _ Minister of Works. The Prime Minister is taking Mr Masters’s Education portfolio, and Mr Cobbe will become acting Minister of Industries and Commerce. Mr Ransom,- Minister of Lands, having recovered his health,- has resumed hi» duties.—Wellington correspondent.

Mr R. Duncan left, by the south express this morning en route .to Queenstown. Several delegates to the sessions of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand left by the early trains this morning for their homes.

Mr John Gilchrist travelled by the early train to-day on his way to Wellington. Padre H. Leggate, organiser of Too H, left Dunedin this morning for Christchurch. •

Mr James -Fletcher was a passenger for Wellington and Auckland by the 11.35 train to-day. Mr W. G. Turner left for Wellington this morning; - Mr J„ Sawers, of the railways headquarters staff, is on his way to Wellington, arriving there to-morrow. An arrival at Wellington from England by the lonic yesterday was Dr W. Traill Thomson, who left the Waitaki Boys’ High School in -1898, and entered Otago University, subsequentlyqualifying at King’s College Hospital, London. During the war he was a. captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He then practised at Leamington until about fours years ago, when he sold his practice and went to live in Warwickshire. ‘Dr Thomson left New Zealand in 1899, and has not been back since then. Last year he was presented with the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem by the King. Mr, C. A. Berendton, secretary of External - Affairs, in Dunedin yesterday from Invercargill, and went on to-day to Wellington. At last night’s meeting of the Forhury Park Trotting Club' the chairman (Mr B. S. Irwin) referred to the deaths of Mrs H. L. James, widow of the late secretary of the club, Mrs Fogg, mother of Mr T. Fogg, former handicapper for the club, and Mrs E. A. Pigeon, of Gore, who raced her horses and attended tho club’s meeting for many years. As a mark, of respect for the deceased, members stood. in silence for a few moments. Senior-sergeant D. A. Mac Lean is promoted to the rank of sub-inspector, as from December 1, and is to be transferred to Christchurch to replace Subinspector Powell. A Press Association cable message from Melbourne, states that Mr James Gilbert Mann, aged twenty-one. the elder son,.of Mr Justice Sir, Frederick Mann, lias been chosen as the Victorian Rhodes scholar for 1935.

Grand Hotel,—Miss M. E. Copper (New York), Mr D. T. Macpherson (London), Mr R. E. "Wood (Melbourne), Messrs L. J. -Stevens and A. Thomson (Auckland). Mr H. ■ F; loogood (Wellington). Captain D. S. Fraser (Christchurch), and Mr Godfrey Paapa (Waimate). , Gitv Hotel.—Messrs E. Johnstone and W. Paterson (Wellington). Mr and Mrs W. Thomson, Mr and Mrs H. M. Boyd fChristchurch), and Mrs T. Ait, ken (Timsru).