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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21827, 14 December 1932, Page 8

PERSONAL

VICE-KEOAL. Their Excellencies Lord and Lady Bledisloe will pay a visit this forenoon to the factory of Messrs Coulls, Somerville, and Wilkie. In the afternoon they will attend the prize-giving ceremony of the Otago Girls’ High School at His Majesty’s Theatre, and in the evening they will be present at the Town Hall, when the Otago Boys’ High School breakup ceremony will take place. Lord and Lady Bledisloe’s visit will be concluded to-morrow, when they will leave by the 11.34 a.m. train for the north. Dr James Gibb left by the express yesterday morning on his return to Wellington. Mr G. R. Ritchie left by the through ■express yesterday on his' way to Wellington. Mr Crosby Morris travelled to Christchurch by the express yesterday. Mr G. W. Reid left by the express yesterday oh’ his way to Wellington, where he will attend a meeting of the Railways Board. Dr J. V. Cable left by the express yesterday on a visit to Wellington. Mr G. Benson was a passenger for Christchurch by the through express yesterddy. j Mr F. G. Payne, of Payne and Son, London, left for Christchurch by the express yesterday. Mr' D. S. Mackenzie, of Gore, passed through Dunedin yesterday on his way to Christchurch. Mr R. T. Stewart and Mr Arthur Ellis, of the Gold Development Corporation, will leave Dunedin by the mid-day express today on a visit to the West Coast. Mr J. Hope, of Dunedin, who has been on a visit to Australia, returned by the Monowai, which arrived at Wellington yesterday. 1 The Rev. W. A. Curzon-Siggers has been- appointed superintendent of the Anglican Orphanages, in place of the Rev. S. J. Cooper, who will leave Dunedin at' the end of January for Christchurch, For the past five years the Rev. W. A. CurzonSiggers has filled the position of subwarden of Selwyn College. Among the passengers by the Makura, which arrived at .Wellington on Monday from San Francisco, was Mr 0. Guy,, a representative of American tobacco interests, who intends spending about two years in New Zealand. Cabled advice has been received by Lieutenant F. W. G. M‘Leod, of New Plymouth, that he has been appointed musical‘judge for the Queensland championship band contests to be held next Easter. After consultation with the committee controlling the RegimentalMunicipal Band Mr M'Leod has been granted leave to accept the offer, Mr Tugi, Premier of Tonga, who is accompanied by his son, Prince Taufa, arrived from Auckland yesterday morning on a short visit to Wellington. An official call was made at Government House (states a Press Association telegram), and the visitors had morning tea with the Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers.

Mr H. L. Tapley, ex-Mayor of Dunedin and ex-M.P. for Dunedin North, who has been on a business and pleasure visit to Australia, arrived in Wellington by the Monowai yesterday. He will leave for Blenheim to-day, and will arrive in Dunedin during the weekend. Mr A. M, Richards, M.A. (Auckland and Dunedin) arrived in London by the Hobsons Bay at the end of October (says our correspondent, writing on November 3), and after a short period in London he went north to take a postgraduate course at New College, Edinburgh. He is studying social conditions in the Scottish cities, and intends later to carry on further investigations on the Continent. While in London Mr Richards stayed with his brother, Mr C. Richards, a New Zealand journalist, who is engaged professionally in London.