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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22204, 6 March 1934, Page 10

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VlCg-RgOAl. A Press Association telegram from Auckland states that the Governor-Gene-ral (Lord Bledisloe) and Lady Bledisloe will leave Auckland this evening for Taranaki, where his Excellency will fulfil Several engagements. They will return to Auckland next Tuesday. Mr C. J. Darrkcott Was a passenger by the express yesterday for Christchurch.

Mr H. A. Bruce, Minister of Works in the Queensland Government, arrived at Auckland yesterday by the Aorangi, accompanied by his wife. They will spend a month’s holiday in the Dominion. Mr K. Q. Hume, sub-inspector of the Bank of New Zealand, has returned by the Aorangi from a visit to Australia. .The Rev. Fathers Sobb and Fitspstdek, Of Sydney, who have been visiting Dunedin after .attending the. jubilee of Arehbishop Redwood at Wellington, left yesterday morning on their return to Australia. ■ ; ■ -V- -

Colonel E. R. Smith left Dunedin yesterday morning for Wellington. He will attend the Trentham rifle meeting, after which he will tour the North Island.

Mr J. Ritchie, chairman of the Vincent County Council, was s passenger by yesterday’s express for the north, en route to Wellington. The Church News records the resignation of Mr John Studbolme from General Synod on account of his health. Mr A. H. Dowall, of the Mosgiel railway staff, has been transferred to Tapenui, and will leave oh Thursday. Bis successor will be Mr T. Condon, of Dunedin.

A Press Association telegram reports that Mr Leslie Lefeanx, governor-desig-nate of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, is a passenger by the Rangitane, which will arrive at Auckland from England on March 15.

Mr George Munro, president of the Scottish Society, who. is at present laid aside with illness, was visited by members and friends of the society at his home in Kaikorai on Sunday, and it is pleasing to report that he is now oh a fair way to recovery. Mr C. H. Taylor, who since the establishment of Rongotai College, Wellington, in 1928, has been on its staff as bead of the Intermedate Department, until . recently comprising over 200 boys, has'been appointed to the St. Glair School. Dr Ai C. Vardon, assistant director of the King Edward Vll Memorial Pasteur Institute and Medical Research Institute at Shillong, Assam, arrived in Dunedin last night from Christchurch. After paying a visit to Milford Sound, he will sail from Wellington, en route to India, on March 15. ... A Preea Association message from Auckland statee that Sir Murchiaon Fletcher, Governor of Fiji, left by the Aorangi for Suva after a visit to Australia, where he met the Resident Commiasioner of the Solomon Islands. ...

s Last night's meeting of the Management Committee of the Otago Rugby Footbell Union received a letter from Mr J. B Lovelock, who, writing from Exeter College, Oxford, thanked the committee for its congratulations to him on bis success on the running track. The annual meeting of the Otago LaW Society was held in the Dnivermty Club 1 rooms, when the following office, beaters were elected for the ensuing year:—President, Mr C. L. Calvert; vice-nreeidont, Mr P. S. Anderson; treasurer, Mr A. C. Stephens; council—MewrtF. B. Adams, H. L. Cook, A. N. Haggitt. J. P. Ward. E. J. Smith, and R.G. • The Otago High Schools’ Board has decided to award to Eagbarth E. Moller the General Harry Fulton memorial scholar ship, which is tenable for three yearn at any college of the University of New Zealand or at any school of professional education approved by the board. A aimiiar scholarship waa held during toe three years just expired by Mr Lester Moller, an elder brother of the present holder. Mr H. H. Addington, a retired Britieh Army officer, who, after residing nearly 20 years in New Zealand, has been absent for four years and a-half, returned by the Monowai yesterday (says a Press Association telegram from Wellington). He said he had been away longer than be intended, but the depression had so affected his interests here that it had not been worth his while to come back sooner. Things now appeared to be picking UP. and he had come to settle bn some private matters. He might stay for two years. Mr Addington is the second son of tne late Viscount Sidmouth. . Dr Whyte, Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin, and Dr Morkane will leave Wellington on April 4 by the Monowai for Sydney, where they will join the Oronsey for Naples. They intend to spend a month in Rome, and will then . vfnt Oberammergau for the Passion play. .Later they will travel through Western Europe to “Great Britain and Ireland, and expect to return to New Zealand in DeCC Before undertaking a course of special study under the provisions of his recent scholarship success, Dr Garth Stoneham is spending three weeks holiday in Gisborne with his parents. Dr Stoneham will leave Auckland this Week for Me- - where for six months he will engage in research work at the Womens Hospital. Later he will leave for London, where he will report to the scholar ship authorities and will receive an appointment at an institution furnishing facilities for further research. The Rotary Conference at New Plymouth accorded Archbishop Redwood. SAI., Roman Catholic Metropolitan of New Zealand, a vote of congratulation on the attainment of his diamond jubilee. The retiring district igoverner, Rotanan T. C. List, said that Archbishop Redwood’s life had been one of service to hit fellow men and his church. It was fitting that the conference should pass a motion of congratulation on Archbishop Redwood’s attainment of his jubilee andof appreciation of hit great public service. A resolution to this effect was adopted. Messrs Cyril Kay and Harold Piper, who may represent New Zealand In the Melbourne Centenary Air Race, flew from London to Darwin in 1930. leaving on February 10 and arriving on March 24. Their journey was extremely arduous, as they had to fly through snow in France, volcano smoke in Italy, rain over the Mediterranean, and a gale over the Timor Sea. Head wind* were encountered practically all; the way. Their Desoutter cabin machine, now used by Mr S. J. Blacfcmore, of Hamilton, was forced down eight times through engine trouble. The men shipped their machine to New Zealand, and toured the country before returning to their duties with the Royal Air Force. . Mr Kay was born in Auckland, and Mr Piper at Akaroa.