PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 22366, 16 June 1936, Page 9

PERSONAL

•—Ministerial.— The Hon. - W. Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, will arrive in Dunedin, by the express on Thursday afternoon, and will stay at the Grand Hotel. Ho will open the Show on Friday afternoon. His further programme is not definitely arranged, as he may have to return to Wellington on Monday. The Minister of Marketing (Hon* W. Nash) will leave Wellington to-mor-row for Hastings, where he will address the National Dairy Conference on tho details arising from the Government’s scheme of guaranteed prices for dairy products. The Postmaster-General (Hon. F. Jones) will probably leave Wellington to-morrow for Dunedin. Next week the Minister of Education (Hon. P. Fraser) will probably visit several provincial centres in the North Island, conferring with education boards and hospital boards regarding their activities. Later Mr Fraser hopes to be able to visit the South Island. Mr A. H, Allen left this morning to attend a meeting of the executive of the Associated Chambers of Commerce in Wellington. Mr J. G. Dykes, manager of the Dunedin branch of the Bank of New Zealand. is on a business trip to Wellington.

A Napier Association message announces that Mr G. R. Herron, of Southland, was appointed president at the annual meeting of the Dominion Group Herd Testing Federation. Dr C. J. Rolls concluded his 14 days* visit to the South Island, and left for Featherston by the second express today in continuation of his lecturing and preaching tour'. During his stay in Dunedin be was the guest of Mr W. T. Wilson.

Mr G. Grant, of Balfour, is on a visit to Dunedin.

Constable H. J. Thompson, of Lumsden, passed through Dunedin this morning on his way to Christchurch. Mr F. J. Williams was a passenger by to-day’s second express on a business trip to Wellington. Messrs H. L. Paterson, E. G. Wilson, and C. L. Calvert travelled to-day to Wellington at attend the conference of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association.

Mr Grant, editor of the Rangoon * Times,’ Burma, who returned to Dunedin recently owing to the illness of his sister, left to-day, en route for Sydney. Representatives of the Otago and Southland Fire and Accident Underwriters’ Association met in the association rooms yesterday afternoon to bid farewell to Miss MTamney, of the association staff, who is leaving to be married, and Mr E. L. White, local manager for the Queensland Insurance Co. Ltd., who is being transferred to Auckland. The chairman, Mr F. V. Drake, in handing Miss M'Tamnev an inscribed silver entree dish and Mr White an engraved silver cigarette case, expressed his congratulations and good wishes. Latest registrations at the City Hotel include Mr 6. Sykes (New Plymouth), Mr and Mrs W. Hardie (Christchurch), Miss E. Hart (Lawrence), and Mr W. W. Edgar (Tapanui).