PERSONAL ITEMS

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. The Governor-General, Viscount Galway, and Lady Galway, accompanied by Captain E. Stuart French, Lieutenant S. E. le 11. Lombard-Hobson, A.D.C.’s, and Colonel N. Dalrymple Hamilton, of England, arrived in Taupo on Friday to spend a short fishing holiday. Fishing below the Huka Falls on Friday evening, Lady Galway took 12 large fish, using mostly tho black sedge fly. Colonel Hamilton, also using tho black sedgo fly, took tho limit on Spa Reach. The best fish weighed 4Jlb. Their Excellencies and their aide-de-camp left for Wellington on Sunday afternoon. Air. G. Trevor, of Cook Street, who broke a leg bone while playing tennis recently, is making satisfactory progress toward recover}-. Members of the Manawatu Drainage Board stood in silenco yesterday when a motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. P. E. Baldwin was carried. Visitors to the Palmerston North Rotary Club yesterday wero Messrs D. Faulkner and B. H. Moss, of Palmerston North, W. Coltman, of Auckland, and J. S. Allan, of Palmerston North. Colonel N. Dalrymple Hamilton, formerly of the Scots Guards, left Auckland by the Monterey for San Francisco. For the last two months he has been touring and fishing in New Zealand. The Australian Federal Treasurer, Mr. E. G. Casey, has been made a Privy Councillor, states a cablegram from Canberra. He is the fifth member of the Australian Ministry to receive this honour. Eev. F. J. Miles, general secretary of the Russian Missionary Society, will arrive in New Zealand on March 15 and remain about two months. Air. Aliles was senior chaplain to the Australian Imperial Force during the Great War and was throe times decorated for gallantry. He has held the position of president of the Christian Endeavour Union of Great Britain and has occupied pulpits in tho loading churches throughout the country.

Lord Halifax has received an invitation from Al. Chevalier, Dcau of tho University of Grenoble, to be present at the celebrations in connection with the sixth centouafy of th 6 foundation of that university, to be held during the first half of May, states a British Official Wireless message. Lord Halifax is being invited in his dual capacities as Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of Oxford University. Ho hopes to be able to accept the invitation.