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Evening Star, Issue 22085, 19 July 1935, Page 7

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■ —Vice-Regal.— Viscount and Viscountess Galway, following upon a visit to Hastings, arrived at Waipawa’ at mid-day, where they were welcomed by a 'large crowd. An address was presented by the mayor, Mr C. G. E. Harker. Later their Excellencies visited Waipukurau, where another warm reception was accorded them, the mayor, Mr I. W. N. Mackie, presenting an address. A brief call to the Pukeora sanatorium com- , pleted the Central Hawke’s Bay visits, —Press Association.

Mr T. B. Poynton travelled by train to Temuka to-day to attend a conference of Dairy Board Ward officers. Mr C. Eric Begg left this morning to visit his firm’s branches between Dunedin and Auckland. Mr J. H. Waigth and Mr John Bennetts went by the second express to Christchurch to-day on fruitgrowers’ Mr W. J. Gaudin, a member of. the Wellington City Council, has decided to contest the Wellington East seat as an Independent candidate at the general election. • , Brigadier Middlemiss, appointed to the command of the Salvation Army in Otago and Southland, visited Gore today. ' _ Mr Richard Berry Hamel was yesterday admitted by His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy as a barrister of the Supreme Court. . A Wellington Press Association telegram records the death of Mr R. M. Gordon, formerly of the Eastern Extension Cable Company. In response to requests from the members to review her decision to resign from the position of treasurer of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’. Union, Mrs J. Pow has decided to with, draw her resignation.—Wellington Press Association.

A Wellington Press Association tele* gram states that Mr Alan C. Browne, the well-known climber-artist-lecturer, , returned to New Zealand yesterday by the Tamaroa. He first came to New Zealand in 1925. spent several years in the Southern Alps, and returned to England in 1931, where he delivered over 200 illustrated lectures, besides pursuing his interests as an artist and taking hundreds of photographs in the lakes district and North Wales. Last year hh met with a serious climbing accident, and lay in plaster for seven months. His wife and son returned to New Zealand 18 months ago. ■ Miss Nessie Moncrieff, . M.A., New Zealand world fellowship secretary, who is at present acting general secretary in the Christchurch Association, will shortly continue her deputation work on behalf of the Chinese Y.W.C.A. in the northern centres. In November she leaves for England, ■ where she will take an intensive study course which will include such subjects as Oriental psychology and community planning. After a few months she will then proceed to America, where, in company with a number of former American colleagues from China, she will attend a convention at Colorado Springs, After a few weeks in America, where she has been asked to undertake to interpret to the American Association the 'needs and problems of Chinese women, Miss Moncrieff will return .to Shanghai to join the national staff of the Chinese Y.W.C.A. The local association is holding its jubilee year fair in order to support this work. ‘ The death of Mr J. B. Shacklock was a subject of reference at the monthly meeting of the Dunedin Manufacturers’ Association yesterday ‘ afternoon. The president (Mr T. Somerville) stated that Mr Shacklock had been associated with their organisation since its inception, and to this, as to all other bodies with which ha had been connected, he had given tinstintingly of his time, vision, and wisdom, The following motion' was then, carried, members standing in silence “ The members of the Dunedin Mamifacturers’ Association tender their deep sympathy to Mrs Shacklock and family, and, in doing so, wish to place on record their high appreciation of the outstanding qualities of the late Mr J. B. Shacklock. He was imbued with the highest ideals of citizenship, and over a long period of years gave ungrudgingly of his abilities and energies in the service of the city as a councillor. He may be ranked amongst the pioneers of industry in New Zealand, and took a keen and active interest in the affairs of the Manufacturers’ Association. As a members of the executive his sound judgment commanded the respect of his associates. He will be ' long remembered for his kindly disposition and his valuable services to the civic and industrial welfare of the city.”