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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23044, 21 November 1936, Page 14

PERSONAL

Vice-Regal The Governor-General, Viscount Galway, paid his first official visit to Ashburton yesterday, and was accorded a civic welcome on behalf of the borough and county. He inspected the school children assembled in the Domain, visited the hospital, the Turangi Old Men’s Home, and the Soldiers’ Club, and was entertained at luncheon by local bodies. He then went to Longbeach as the guest of Mr J. H. Grigg. He will visit Timaru to-day. Dr D. G. M’Millan, M.P., returned from Wellington yesterday afternoon. Sir Hugh Acland is at .present visiting Dunedin. He is staying at the Carlton Hotel. The Rev. Robert Blair was a passenger for Christchurch by the through express yesterday morning. Mr W. E. Hale passed through Dunedin by the second express yesterday morning, en route for Hamilton. Police Inspector J. Cummings and Superintendent A. Cameron left for Oamaru by the first express yesterday morning. Under the command of Signalman W. W. Wright, nine signalmen and wireless ratings of the Otago Division, R.N.V.R., left by the second express yesterday to join H.M.S. Dunedin at Akaroa for a fortnight’s training at sea. Mr A. Stoneham, of Gisborne, arrived from the north yesterday afternoon on a brief visit to Dunedin. Dr L. J. Parton, son of Mr and Mrs W. A. Parton, of Wellington, has passed his primary F.R.C.S., London, and has been appointed to Swindon Hospital. Constable T. Matthews, who has been stationed at Dunedin for the past three years, has received notice of his transfer on promotion to officer in charge of Coalgate Police Station. Mr D. M. Robertson has tendered his resignation from the position of sanitary inspector of the City Council, and instructions have been given for the calling of applications to fill the vacancy. A Press Association cable message from Sydney states that Lady Murray Anderson, wife of the late Governor, left Sydney privately, and will return to London by the Maloja from Melbourne next week Dr R. Stout, of Wellington, and Dr Doris Gordon, of Stratford, who are both examiners for the professional medical examinations at Otago University. arrived from the north yesterday. Mr F.’ W. Mitchell returned to Dunedin yesterday after attending the annual meeting of the Employers’ Federation. Mr William Taylor, general manager of the New Zealand Drug Company, Ltd., returned yesterday from a visit to Wellington. Mr J. W. Smeaton returned by the express train yesterday from a visit to Wellington. Sir Standish Roche arrived in Dunedin yesterday afternoon, en route for Lake Wanaka. He is staying at Wain’s Hotel. Mr C. E. Richaras, of Alexandra, was a passenger from the north by yesterday afternoon’s train. At the annual meeting of the Otago and Southland District of the Methodist Church at Invercargill on Thursday, sympathy was expressed with the Rev. A. J. Seamer in-the death of his son-in-law. Dr Tennyson Howie. Mention was also made of the death of the Rev. Robert Haddon. the senior Maori superintendent of Home Missions, and a motion recording the synod’s sorrow was passed. The- Union Airways liner Kotuku left the Taieri airport at 8.15 yesterday morning for Christchurch, Blenheim, and Palmerston North with Messrs F. D. Graham and H. H. Rattray for Christchurch, and Messrs C. B. Pepper and P. Matheson for Wellington. The Karoro arrived from the north at 1 p.m. with Sir Hugh Acland, Mr E. H. Risley, and Miss H. F. Crust from Christchurch.