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Evening Star, Issue 22524, 17 December 1936, Page 11

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—Ministerial.— The Minister of Labour (Hon. H. T. Armstrong) left Auckland for Wellington last night, and the Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. W. E. Parry) arrived at Auckland to-day. The Minister of Health (Hon. P. Fraser) will leave Auckland for Wellington to-night. Sir John Davidson will succeed the Hon. Edmund W. Parker as chairman of the Union Bank of Australia. Mr Parker is retiring for health reasons.— Wellington Press Association. Mr W. Crawford, general secretary of the New Zealand section of the Tneosophical Society, arrived by the first express to-day to attend the annual convention. Arrivals by the Rangitane from England included Lieutenant-colonel 6. H. J. Skeffiugton-Smyth, a brother-in-law of Lord Galway, who is accompanied by Lieutenant-colonel E. F. MorrisonBell. They will stay at Government House, remaining in New Zealand until March. Sir Charles R. Campbell and Lady Campbell, Isle of Wight, also arrived bv the same vessel. Sir Charles is on a business trip. They will remain in the Dominion at least six months.— Wellington Press Association. To rejoin his regiment, the Grenadier Guards, Captain A. G. W. HeberPercy, aide-de-camp to the GovernorGeneral, will leave Wellington, on January 5 for England via Australia. At the monthly concert of the Burns Club last night the president (Mr George Currie) referred to the death, of Mr William Brown, a former president and a life member of the club. Mr Brown had, he said, been one of the founders of the Burns Club, and had been its first secretary. He was an enthusiastic Scot, and had done a great deal for the club. The audience stood in silence as a mark of respect, after which Piper G. Crighton played a lament. A Press Association cable message from London states that Mr Neville L. Wright, New Zealand’s representative on the Executive of the Imperial Agricultural Bureau, has been elected chairman in succession to Sir C. Howell Thomas. Latest arrivals at the Grand Hotel are Mr and Mrs F. W. Strickland, and Captain and Mrs R. G. England (London), Mr E. D. Crossley (Wellington), Miss L. Turner (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs J. Wesley Hayes (Waimaie), and Mr J, W. Gallaway (Dunedin).