PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 4 June 1938, Page 16

PERSONAL

Vice-Regal

The Governor-General (Viscount Galway) left for Wellington last night (states a Press Association message from Auckland), and will be present at the air display at Rongotai aerodrome this afternoon. His Excellency will leave Wellington for Christchurch to-night to participate in the King’s Birthday parade on Monday. He will return to Auckland on Wednesday. Ministerial The Minister of Lands and Acting Minister of Agriculture (Mr F. Langstone) paid a visit yesterday morning to Brighton, where he discussed the question of a camping ground with the Brighton Domain Board. In the afternoon he performed the official onening ceremony of the Winter Show. This morning he will be engaged with private deputations, and to-morrow he will pay a visit to the small farms settlement on the Peninsula. The. Minister will leave lot the north by train on Monday morning. Mr W. F. Titchener left yesterday for Timaru. Mr R. B. Tennent, director of the fields division of the Department of Agriculture, left on his return to Wellington by the through express yesterday, Mr Dennis Lumsden Wood. LL.B.. was yesterday admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court by Mr Justice Kennedy. Mr J. A. Roy, M.P., was a through passenger for the .south by the express yesterday afternoon oil his return from Wellington. ' Mr J, Hellyer was last evening reelected president of the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society. Mr T. H. Langford, Transport Licensing Authority for Canterbury, Marlborough, and Westland, is at present visiting Dunedin, and is staying at the Excelsior Hotel. Bishop Ross. Catholic Bishop In Japan, who is on a visit to New Zealand, returned from Oamaru yesterday. He is the guest of Bishop Whyte. Mr N. Gordon, the most worshipful grand master of New Zealand of the Loyal Orange Institution, is making a short visit to Dunedin from the north. He will proceed south to Invercargill on Monday. Messrs T. S. Little, of Corriedale, and Crosby Morris were elected life members of the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society by the annual meeting of the society last evening. It was said by Mr R. T. Kirk, who made the nominations, that Mr Little had been an exhibitor and a very keen supporter of the show for nearly half a century, Mr Morris had not been a committeeman, and had not exhibited in recent years, but in the last 50 years he had been probably the best friend the scoiety had had. Mr L. H. Beardsley, recently appointed manager for E. W. Pidgeon and Co., Ltd., New Zealand distributors for the B. F. Goodrich Company, of Akron, U.S.A., returned to Dunedin this week after a two months’ business trip in the North Island. Mr A. J. Geddes, of Invercargill, who, with Messrs Read Masters (Christchurch) and A. A. Adams (W es t Coast), will select the South Island team to play against the North Island at Wellington next Saturday, was a passenger for Christchurch by the through express yesterday. The South Island team will be picked at Christchurch to-night.

Ministerial

Reference to the deaths of two yaluabla members of the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society. Messrs W. C Todd, of Mosgiel, and E. Shand. of Kokonga, was made at the annual meeting of the society last evening. A motion of sympathy with their relatives was carried in the customary fashion.

The Union Airways liner Kotuku left the Taieri airport at 8.15 yesterday morning for Christchurch, Blenheim, and Palmerston North with Mr A. B. Duncan for Christchurch and Messrs G. C. Callaghan and G. R. Stone for Wellington. The south-bound liner Karoro arrived at 2.45 p.m. from the north with Mr and Mrs E. Tamblyn from Palmerston North and Mr M. S. Myers and Miss M. Hislop from Christchurch.