PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16874, 11 February 1929, Page 8

PERSONAL

Dr. M. P. MeSweeney, of Gisborne was a recent caller at, the High Commis sinner's office, London

M'r. J. W. Nolan, chairman of directors of the Gisborne Sheepfarmers' Frozen Meat and Mercantile Co., has recovered sufficiently from the effects of his recent ankle injury to resume business.

Mr. O. Arthur, 8.A., F.R.E.S., who lias been on the staff of the Wnnganui Technical College for the past two years, lias been appointed headmaster of the, Kadavu Provincial School, Fiji, Commodore G. T. C. Swabey, D. 5.0.. of H.M.S. Ihincdin, will be the principal speaker at the annual banquet to he held at the Ashburton Returned Soldiers' Club on April 4. i Mr. (!. V Birks, of Sydney, who is governor of the Rotary movement in Au.-dtalia, has returned to Wellington after an enjoyable motor tour of the. South Island. He will leave this week. en a tour of the North Island, and at Auckland will join the Aorangi for Sydney.

The Rev. David Jones, M.A., of Fort Fairfield, United Stales, who has been appointed to the pastorate of tho Newtown Congregational Church, is to arrive at Auckland from Vancouver by the Aorangi on February 25. In Fori, Fairfield Mr. .lo les was a prominent Rotiii'i.'in, and was the delegate from Ihe Corf Fairfield club to the world i onVfmliou of Rotary International al Oslend, Belgium, in 1927.

Advice has been received that Mr. N. R. Fisher, who left Dmiediii nearly 20 years ago, has been selected as pre. sident of tho Canadian Institute of Mining •ahct Metallurgy, with headquarters at, Montreal. This is the. highest honor the mining fraternity of Canada, can confer on any of its members. Mr. Fisher was one of the first students to take a mining engineer's degree at Otago University.

The Hon. Sir A. T. Ngata, Minister of Native Affairs, left, Cisborne this morning for Wellington, after a stay of some days on the coast and in Gisborne. He look an opportunity during the visit, to bis electorate to meet representative gatherings of natives and to discuss problems associated with settling more -Maoris independently on the land. Another subject iyt which (be Minister interested himself unofficially was the progress of the arrangements for unveiling the Sir James Carroll Memorial. This function is to take place on March 6, according to present intentions, and A. T. Ngata yesterday met a large number of Poverty Bay natives, at Manutuke to discuss the matter of organisation