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Mr E. C. Carter, Secretary-General of the Institute of Pacific Relations, who has been touring New Zealand, will leave .for San Francisco by the Monterey today, accompanied by Mrs Carter. Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith returned to Auckland by air yesterday after visiting Wellington and New Plymouth, and he will leave for San Francisco by the Monterey today. According to private advice received in Auckland, Mr Douglas D. Porter, general secretary of the Egypt General Mission, died in London on Thursday as the result of a motor accident.
Mr J. A. W. Bennett and Mr John Mulgan, formerly of Auckland University College, have obtained firstclass honours in English at Oxford University, according to cable advice received in Auckland yesterday. Both have been at Merton College. Mr Bennett went to Oxford in 1933 on a travelling scholarship.
Mr Brian O’Rorke, who was entrusted with the whple of the interior decoration of the new Orient liner, Orion, is a native of Christchurch. He took degrees in engineering and ax’chitecture at Cambridge and has won a number of prizes awarded -by the Royal Institute of British Architects and the . Architectural Association.
A civic farewell to the Auckland ■members of the 1935 All Black team was tendered by the Mayor, Mr Ernest Davis, in the Council Chamber of the Town Hall, yesterday. The players present were T. H. C. Caughey, D. Solomon, W. E. Hadlee, C. S. Pepper and H. F. McLean. M. N. Corner was absent, owing to indisposition, and H E. Brown is visiting Taranaki. Representatives of all sports bodies, as well as members of the general public, were present. The Rev. A. V. Whiting, for some years pastor of the Beresford Street Congregational Church, Auckland, and well-known as “Uncle Bert,” of IYA and the Friendly Road, and also as a past secretary of the Y.M.C.A., Whangarei, has accepted a call to St. Augustine's Congregational Church, Melbourne. He has recently been conducting services there with such success that he was invited to assume the leadership of the church. He will begin his ministry during August.
The appointments of two members of the Legislative Council, the Hon. J. MacGregor (Otago) and the Hon. R. Moore (Canterbury) expired on July 14. and those of two others, the Hon. ,W. W. Snodgrass and the Hon. W. H. Mclntyre (Nelson) will end on September 3. It is considered unlikely that any steps w>ll be taken to fill the two seats just vacated, by reappointment or otherwise, until after the return from Britain of the Prime Minister, Mr Forbes, and Mr Coates.
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