MAINLY ABOUT MEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12596, 5 November 1926, Page 6

MAINLY ABOUT MEN

VICE-REGAL His Excellency the Governor-Gen* qrai (Sir Charles Fergusson) left for Auckland by the Limited express on Wednesday night. MINISTERIAL The Right Hon. J. G. Coates will be sworn in as a member of the Privy Council to-day. The Australian Press Association is reliably informed that this honour represents the present limit of Mr Coates’s wish for Imperial recognition.—A.-N.Z. Mr Culford Bell returned from Auckland yesterday. Mr D. Jones, M.P., arrived in Wellington from the south yesterday morning. Sir Francis Boys, of Christchurch, is in Wellington. Mr Walter Tripe, general manager of the Gear Meat Preserving Company, who has been on a trip to Great Britain extending over several months, has returned to Wellington. Mr A. L. Hunt, at an executive meeting of the English-speaking Union, was elected chairman for the ensuing year, with Mr M. Barnett (at present in England) as deputycllairman. At the meeting of the New Zealand Football Association last evening a vote of condolence was passed with the widow and family of Mr F. Pirani, tho chairman, Mr A. Varney, expressing the regret that Soccer had lost a great helper. The biennial conference of the New Zealand Related Printing Trades Association commenced in the Trades Hall on Thursday morning. The delegates present were:—Auckland (J. iVlclnnarney and L. Brown), Wellington (C. Eggleton, R. H. Jenkins and W. Simpson), Christchurch (A. Tongue, E, A. Knights, and W. G. Ludbrook), Dunedin (H. Ferguson and W. Scrivenor), Gisborne ((J. R. Houlahan), together with Mr V. H. Clifford (president) and C. H. Chapman (secretary). The principal business of the conference is to draft proposals for a new award for the various trades comprised in the printing trades.