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The Prime Minister, Mr. P. Fraser, and the Minister of Finance, Mr. W. Nash, will pay a brief visit to Australia this week. A « • • The Mayor, Mr. J. W. Andrews, was congratulated by the Lower Hutt City Council on Monday night' on his re-election as president of the New Zealand.,. Municipal Conference at Christchurch recently. Cr. Dudding, who attended the conference, said that he had been greatly impressed by the manner in which the Mayor got through the business; he had come through the conference with flying colours. • • • • Mr. H. G. Lewis, of Lower Hutt, is to visit the United States shortly. • • « * Mr. H. Bramley, representing Hutt Valley, has been elected a member of the executive committee of the newly-formed New Zealand Cricket Umpires' Association. • • • • At Monday night's meeting of the Lower Hutt City Council the Mayor, Mr. J. W. Andrews, made feeling reference to the death of Mrs. Ashton, of Napier, wife of a former member of the Council. A motion of condolence was carried in silence. « • • • Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Jackson, who have been visiting Great Britain, Canada and. the United States, returned to Lower Hutt last week. •*' • • Mr. J. Fletcher, Chief Sanitary Inspector to the Lower Hutt City Council, has been elected vice-presi-dent of the Royal Sanitary Institute. • • • • The Wellington Rugby Union, at its last meeting, decided to forward a letter of appreciation for his long and meritorious service as secretary of the Hutt Rugby Club to Mr. C. W. Dudding, who had retired from the position. • • • • Mr. D. O. White will be the speaker at the fortnightly meeting of the National Party, the subject of his address being "Publicity in Election Year." •#* . * Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Ryan, of Puriri Street, Lower Hutt, have, returned from Auckland, where they have been taking farewell of their daughter Rita (Mrs. Davies) and her daughter Marion, who sailed on the Monterey for the United States. Mrs Davis is to join her husband in San Diego, California, where he is still serving in the Forces. • # * * Rev. P. J. Blackmore, formerly of Lower Hutt, has been appointed to the Baptist Church at Gore. • • • • Miss Rowena Jackson, the wellknown New Zealand dancer, left for England last week to take up the Royal Academy of Dancing scholarship which was awarded her in 1941. The war prevented her departure for London until now. She will go to the-Sadlers Wells School of Ballet.
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Hutt News, Volume 20, Issue 16, 10 April 1946, Page 7
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