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Northern Advocate, 10 June 1941, Page 4

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Mr. N. Redstone, of Gisborne, has been appointed inspector on the engineering staff of the North Auckland Electric-Power Board.

Mr. W. Jones has been appointed to the House Committee of the Whangarei Hospital Board, in place of Miss Cookson, who did not seek reelection at the recent election.

The Rotary Club today reappointed Rotarians Griffin, May and Armit as its representatives on the Whangarei Advisory Committee of the New Zealand Crippled Children’s Society. Mr : J. A. S. Mac Kay, the board’s chairman, has been appointed the Whangarei Hospital Board’s representative on the Whangarei committee of the Crippled Children’s Society. The Governor-General (Sir Cyril Newall) and Lady Newall, attended by. Captain C. J. Holland-Martin and Captain H. G. Helmore, left Auckland yesterday in order to pay their first official visit to Napier arid Gisborne. Their Excellencies will go into residence at Wellington on Saturday. Major L. A. Johnson, officer commanding the Ist Battery, New Zealand Artillei'y, returned to Whangarei yesterday after spending five weeks on military '' duties in the South. Part of the training included successful and instructive manoeuvres south of Auckland. Major Johnson will leave Whangarei again at the end of the week for Trentham, where he will carry out further military duties. At the Rotary Club’s weekly luncheon today, the members farewelled Rotarian John Evans, who leaves on Saturday for Auckland, where he is to make his home. It was stated that, with the exception of the foundation members and one other, Rotarian Evans was the oldest member of the club as it is constituted today. Tribute was paid to the service he had rendered quietly and consistently, and he was presented with a wallet as a reminder of Rotary and Rotarians in Whangarei.