PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 121, 6 May 1936, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. W. McCullock left Hastings this morning on a visit to Auckland. Mr R. Payne, a ranger of the H.B. Acclimatisation Society, tendered his resignation at last night’s meeting of the conurittee. Mr. J. Bridgeman, accompanied by Miss Bridgeman, left Hastings this morning on a holiday visit to Cambridge. Mr C. F. Doggett was elected a member of the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation Society at the monthly meeting of the committee in Napier last evening. The appointment of Mr A. H. Cockayne as Director-General of the Department of Agriculture was announced in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Whitlock, who have been on a brief visit to Gisborne and East Coast bays, have returned to Hastings. Mrs. Whitlock adjudicated at the annual drama festival of the Poverty Bay Federation of Women’s institutes. Messi's O. J. B. Norwood (president), J. T. Martin (vice-president), and D. J. McGowan, are to be the official delegates of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce to the conference of the Federation of the Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire iu Wellington in October. Mr. Adolph Mann has been appointed examiner in music for the South Island for the Trinity College of Music, and Air. Paul Edmonds examiner in elocution. Mr. Mann is well known as a lecturer and writer on musical, elocutionary and vocal subjects, and has composed songs and chamber music. Mr. Edmonds is also a wellknown lecturer and an author. He has been an examiner in elocution lor Trinity College for some years. Mr H. Duncan Hall, a member of the information section of the League of Nations secretariat, arrived at Wellington from Sydney to-day. He had nothing to say for publication to-day. To-morrow afternoon he meets representatives of the Press privately. He will broadcast addresses on the League and will commence a Dominion tour on Monday, when he leaves lor tho south —Press Assn. Brigadier-General A. O. Alolesworth, who is shortly retiring from the army alter serving 36 years in India, arrived at Wellington to-day with his daughter from Sydney, saying that he might settle here later. He is spending a lew days at Government House. He said he had been corresponding with tho Wei lington Acclimatisation Society regarding the introduction of certain game birds. He has had much experience with deer and would be glad to help in any way possible in overcoming New Zealand’s deer menace. —Press Assn.