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Evening Star, Issue 25113, 1 March 1944, Page 4

PERSONAL

< —Air Passengers.— Passengers from the north yesterday were Mrs M. Hughes, Mrs Y. Hutchinson, Mr G. W. Burmeister, Mr A. J. and Mrs Don, Mr Francis, Mrs T. Paton, and Mrs Blee (from Wellington) . Passengers by the northbound airliner to-day were Mr W. A. IRoss, Lieutenant R. M. Webb, Mr C. M. Jenkins, Mrs F. W. Atchley, Mrs J. S. Sinclair, Mrs D. R. Ancell, Lady Ostler (for Wellington), Mrs M. S. Anderson, Mrs M. Hartley, Mrs L. S. Dyer (for Auckland),

The chairman of the National Quota Committee to control supplies to retail butchers under the. meat rationing scheme will be the rationing controller, Mr J. E. Thomas. Mr H. Sellens, of the food controller's office, will lit* secretary of the committee, the trade members of which were announced yesterday. Dr H. J. van Mook, Minister for the Colonies in the Netherlands Government in London and former Lieuten-ant-Governor-General of the Netherlands Indies, has arrived in Australia for consultations with Netherlands Indies and other authorities. , Men and women of the district who have returned from service with the forces abroad were entertained last night at a social and dance in the Mornington .School ;Hall. . The chairman of the Mornington Receotion Committee, Mr M.-'K. Haig, extended a welcome to the guests, and Sister Wildey_ replied on their behalf. Items were given by Miss Moodie, Mr J. Tait, Mr Galley, and Mr W. Tait. Mrs'J. Wallace was the accompanist. Mr and Mrs JVC. Seelye, of Roslyn, have received unofficial information that their son, Signalman E. C. Seelye, who was taken prisoner in North Africa about 18 months ago, is now in Stalag A.P.

The members of the Otago and Southlaud Industrial Man Power Committee, Messrs M. AV. Grantham (chairman), H.. H. Gillard, A. Mcßae, and J.C. Bates (secretary), will.leave Dunedin to-morrow for sittings at Balclutha, Gore, Mataura, and Invercargill, and will return to Dunedin at the weekend. ..-.'.