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Evening Star, Issue 23130, 2 December 1938, Page 9

PERSONAL

Mr J. M‘G. Wilkie, Harbour Board engineer, returned yesterday from Wellington. Mr C. J. L. White left to-day on a visit to the North Island. Mr J. S. Douglas was a passenger by the express this morning, being bound for Wellington to attend a meeting’ of the Plumbers’ Board and also a Conciliation Council sitting in connection with the plumbers’ dispute. Members and supporters of the St.Kilda Band assembled at the conclusion of the practice last evening to make a presentation to Mr C. E. Miller, who is leaving to take up the conduo torship of the Gore Band. To take command of the minesweeper Wakakura, Lieutenant P. B. M. Lewis arrived at Auckland yesterday by tho Akaroa from Southampton. He is to relieve Lieutenant Phibbs, who is returning to England after serving on the New Zealand station for the last two years and a-half. Lieutenant Lewis was only recently promoted to his present rank, and the Wakakura will be his first command. Mr W. W. Mulholland, of Darfield, Canterbury, Dominion president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, will arrive in Dunedin on Tuesday evening, and the following day will address a meeting of the Otago Provincial Council of the Farmers’ Union. That evening he will also address a combined meeting of the members of the_ Milton branches of the Women’s Division of the union. Mr Mulholland will return north on Thursday. A Press Association cable message from Milan states that the New Zealand mezzo-soprano Mrs Macßrodi© gave a successful concert in the Conservatorium in Italian, English, French, and German.