PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 6

PERSONAL

The Hon. Henry Marks has been reelected Mayor of Suva for his fifth term. —A. and N.ZC.A. Messrs. P, O. Minns, Auckland, and J. C. Dakin, Otago, were selected to-day as Rhodes Scholars for the Dominion.— P.A. The Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, announces that New Zealand will bo represented at the forthcoming Naval Disarmament Conference in London by the new High Commissioner, the Hon. T. M. Wilford.—-Special. Sir James Hamilton, managing director of the Yorkshire Insurance Co., who is making a visit to the company’s agencies in Australia and New Zealand, arrived at Fremantle by R.M.S. Orontes, in company with Lady Hamilton. Mr. I). C. Bates, formerly Government meteorologist of New Zealand, arrived nt Melbourne by ttie C. and D. motor ship Port Huoii, after representing New Zealand and Australia at conferences of meteorological departments in London and Copenhagen. Brigadier Sidney Church and Mrs. Church, of the Salvation Army, arrived at Auckland from Canada hy the Niagara. Brigadier Church lias been appointed editor of the War Cry, the official organ of the Army in New Zealand. Sir Leonard Raws, attorney for Australia and New Zealand of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., was the guest of the Wellington Rotary Club. lie gave a brief address on his impressions of New Zealand, and the desirability of 1 cementing good relations between Australia and New Zealand. The Rev. J. L. Greer, of Auckland, has accepted appointment as Chaplain of Samoa for three years, states the Church News, The Rev. A. C. Hobson, of tho diocese of Oxford, who came out for a year to help Polynesia, and has now returned, has spent tho last live months in Samoa, and, Bishop Kempthorno says, “lias dearly demonstrated the need for a permanent chaplain.”