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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23108, 6 February 1937, Page 14

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Ministerial The Minister of Lands (Mr F. Langstone), who has been making a comprehensive tour of the far north, arrived at Whangarei yesterday afternoop. The Rev. H. J. Ryburn returned yesterday from a holiday spent at Pounawea. Mr A. H. Robinson returned by the express last evening from Wellington. Mr C. Eft Wing left for Christchurch by the second express yesterday to attend the Dominion Executive meeting of the Boy Scouts' Association. Mr Walter Runciman (president of the Board of Trade) is expected to arrive in London to-day by the Aquitania after a short visit to the United States of America, s The Foreign Secretary (Mr Antnony Eden) will leave London to-day for a fortnight's holiday in the south of France. During his absence Lord Halifax will be in charge of the Foreign Office. Professor A. J. Truscott, emeritus professor of mining at the University of London and examiner for 12 years for the University of New Zealand, arrived with his wife at Wellington by the Tamaroa yesterday. This is their first visit to New Zealand. Messrs H. L. Cook (chairman;, H. K. Edie, E. H. Murney, and J. W. Bain (secretary), who comprise the Otago commission which has been hearing applications for mortgage adjustment and renewal in Oamaru, returned to Dunedin by the late express last night and will hold a sitting at Balclutha on Monday. The Union Airways liner Karoro left the Taieri airport at 8.15 yesterday morning for Christchurch, Blenheim, and Palmerston North with Mr F S. Booth for Christchurch, and Messrs T. D. Barrett and R. A. Ewing for Palmerston North. The Kotuku arrived from the north at 1 p.m. with Mrs Low and Miss R. Dyer from Palmerston North and Messrs I. W. Cowie and W. Third from Christchurch. On a holiday visit from England. Sir Edwin Speed, formerly Chief Justice of Nigeria, arrived at Auckland by the Oronsay yesterday. Sir Edwin went to the Gold Coast as District Commissioner in 1899, and served in various capacities on the coast of Africa in the succeeding years. He became Chief Justice in Nigeria in 1914. He retired four years later. He is now chairman of a group of Nigerian tin mining companies. A Press Association cable message from Sydney states that Mr H. S. Bailey, Chief Secretary to the Victorian Government, and his wife sailed for New Zealand by the Awatea last night, Mr E. P. Kerry, conductor of the Randwick Municipal Band, is also a passen ger. He will judge the band competitions in Nelson from February 15 to 20. The bearer of a Dutch title that dates back to the beginning of the twelfth century, Baron de Tuyll is a roundtrip passenger from Sydney by the Oronsav, which arrived at Auckland yesterday. Baron de Tuyll, who is accompanied by the Baroness De Tuyll. left Holland 29 years ago to live in England, and is now a naturalised British subject. He and his wife are making a cruise in the course of a 12 months' visit to Australia The baroness De Tuyll was Miss B. Hordern. a member of a well-known Sydney family, before her marriage.