PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16704, 23 July 1928, Page 5

PERSONAL

A message from St. John (Newfoundlaud) states that tho Premier, Mr. Vv. S. Munroe, unofficially intimates his intention of retiring from politics before the election, which is due in November. The London Daily Telegraph says it has excellent authority for staling that the Archbishopric of Canterbury will be offered to Dr. Lang, Archbishop oi York, who is willing to accept. An official announcement is expected shortly.

Messrs. J. K. Kirk. J. S. Wauchop, G. McKay, and G. A. Maddison, who were recently re-elected unopposed to their seats on the Hawke's Ray Education Hoard, were congratulated by the chairman, Air .1. Clark Thomson, at the meeting of the hoard on Friday.

A third candidate is now in the field for the Thames seal. Mr. Francis Alexander Shaw Carlisle, of Wharepoa, farmer, having announced his intention of entering the lis!:; as an Independent. When passing through Waihi recently, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. 11. K. Uolland, stated thai it wn.s practically certain that the Labor Party would contest, the seat, but so far the party has not selected a candidate.

District. representatives at the counties' conference in Wellington last week returned during the weekend, Those pi'esenl from the easternmost parts of the North Island were: Messrs. Chas, Matthews, chairman, F. TV Robinson, clerk, of the Cook County Council; Messrs. A. A, .Eraser, councillor, and .'I. G. Appleton, clerk, Waikoliu; Messrs. A. G. Nolan, chairman, Signall, clerk, .Wairoa; Mr. E. B. Roland, chairman, Uawa; Mr. A. W. Kirk, Wai.apn.

Advice has been received by the rector of Ihe Cawthron Institute that Sir John Russell's New Zealand itinerary has been provisionally arranged. lie will arrive in Neison tin August fl. and deliver the Cawthron lecture in the evening of the same day. On (.lie following day he will visit, places of agricultural interest in the Nelson district and on August 9 proceed to Blenheim and •Marlborough. Sir' John Russell is Director of Rothamsted, tho oldest and most important agricultural research station in the British Empire. He wishes to see as much as possible of New Zealand agriculture during the lime at his disposal.