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Northern Advocate, 3 May 1934, Page 4

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, Vice-Regal. i Tomonow, Their Excellencies, Lord and Lady Bledisloc, will leave Auckland on a visit to Palhia and Waiiangi, returning to Auckland at the beginning of 1 lie. week. AM- F. W. Kane, Gink of ParliaI inents, has returned to Wellington ! after a holiday visit, to Australia. . j■ • : j Air J. 11. Salmon, 8.M., who has been ■■spending a holiday in. Sydney, re turn-■ , ed to Wellington this week. j Mr G. Thomas, of Fairb.urn, is seriously ill, in the Kaitaia Hospital and j’his condition i-s causing much anx- ! iety. ! The Re v. E. W. Batts, of Ashburton, ; has accepted a call to- the Gisborne j Baptist Tabernacle and will leave j Ashburton at' the end of June. | The Hon. J. G. Cobbe, Major-General ! Sir William Sin cl air-Btir gcss, and party 1 left Whangarei en route for Auckland . by the midday express today. The Commissioner of Transport, Mr j. J. S. Hunter, of Wellington, aceom- | paniod by Mr Shankland, paid a visit j to Raweno- today on Transport Board i business.

j Mr TMdia/ij Cock lias completed 41 (years’ service as a trustee of the I New Plymouth Savings Bank. For 14 : years consecutively he has been chairj man of the Board of Trustees. j Mrs IT. Hodgson, of Nelson, ar- ! rived in Rawene on Tuesday, where | she will stay at the homo of her parj enls, Mr and Mrs Bawden. Mrs Hodg- ! son will, owing to health reasons, j probably stay in Raweno for the winter months. The Hon, Mr. Justice Smith, accompanied by Mr John Alexander and Mr D. C. Johnstone, members of the Commission on Native Affairs, Mr R, H. Quilliam and Mr G. P. Finlay, counsel appearing before the commission, and Mr I?. F, A. Grey, secretary,’‘will arrive in Whangarei today and will be guests at the Commercial Hotel, j The appointment is announced of Mr Frederick M. Kennedy, at presonr in England, to the position of general 1 manager and engineer for the Gisborne Gas Company. Mr Kennedy is a son of Mr Matthew J. Kennedy, general manager and secretary of the Wellington Gas Company, and is the third generation of the Kennedy family to be actively associated with the gas industry in New Zealand; Claiming to be the oldest painter in Auckland, Mr J. C. Rowley, of Killarney Street, Tnkapuna, will celebrate his noth birthday tomorrow. Thirtytwo years have passed since he retired from the trade, but he papered a room this week and trimmed his garden ■hedge. He enjoys good’health and his only trouble is deafness. His memory for dates-and events In his long life is remarkably keen. Mr R. B. Temment, field superintendent of the Department of Agriculture in Otago and Southland, has been appointed Director of the fields Division in succession to Mr J. W. Deem, who "has retired on superannuation. ‘ Mr Temment has been in charge of the Fields Division in Otago and Southland for several years. Ho came to Dunedin 14 years ago, after special courses of study in Scotland, which followed U years in the Australian Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, i

Guest List. Guests at the. 'Commercial Hotel are; Air and Mrs McClymont, Messrs EmirMi, E, McAlurtrie, Aitkin, McLeod, J. Burns, Brigham, Collins, E. Pit hie. Barker, Saunders, W, G. Morris, S. Boyle, Gorrard, E. O’Dowd, Windsor. Booth, Wilkinson, 0. Af, Hill, Lord, Miller, Grieve, L. "Webb, Anderson, E. Blake, G. Hardier, 11. Hardier, W. Bowden; and Messrs Williamson (2), of Wellington,