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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17174, 3 February 1930, Page 5

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General Smuts sailed from London on Saturday for ((Capetown in the Carnarvon Castle.—A. & N.Z.O.A.

The Hector medal and prize for botany have been awarded by the New Zealand Institute to the Rev". Dr. John Holloway, Fellow of the Institute of Dunedin. Mr. M. M. G. Thomas, accountant to the .Union Bank of Australia at Auckland, is being promoted to the position of manager of, the Fcilding branch.

Mr. Brian Blackmore, who has been agriculture master at Waitaki Boys' H : gh School For the past live years, has left for America to study the latest methods of agriculture in that cotuitrv.

The Queen of Sweden, who last year went to the Island of Maimau, Lake Constance, for the benefit of her health, is now seriously ill, suffering from bronchial tuberculosis, complicated by heart trouble. Mr. P. (1. Lewis, headmaster of the Cambridge District High .School, has been appointed an inspector of schools in the Hnwko's Bay district. Mr. Lewis left the Diinncvirke North School a year ago to take dp his position at Cambridge. The Wellington Fducution Board has decided to grant the services of Mr. H. Lawton, instructor in agriculture,to the board, to assist in arranging a scheme in science and agriculture in the Chatham .Islands, where there :ue four primary schools. Mr, W. G. Heptinstall, of Canada, arrived at Auckland this last week to take up the position of manager erf Waikato Carbonisation, Ltd. He will proceed to Rotowaro to superintend the laying 'of the foundations of the carbonising plant, a large portion of which is expected to arrive during April. During an interval at the Wareiiga-o-kuri Sports Club's dance on Saturday night Mr. 'W. T. Veiteh, president of the club, presented Mr. C. B. Mossman, who is shortly leaving for Wairoa, with a portable gramophone as a token of appreciation of the valuable services rendered by him to the club arid to the district generally. The recipient briefly responded. Mr. R. L. Andrew, of the Dominion Laboratory, has been elected to the Fellowship of the Institute of Chem-1 istry of Great Britain and Ireland, Mr.'Andrew is a recognised authority on milk analysis, and on problems relating to milk supply, and has 'also curried out valuable work on the. determination of the iodine content of waters and soils.

Mr. Andrew Ryan, whose appointment to be the first 'British Minister accredited to the kingdom of Mojaz and Nejd has been announced, lie has been Consul-General at Rabat, French Morocco, for the last six years, ami .previously held posts in the British Embassy in Constantinople. He was in the British delegation at the Near Fast Conference, Lausanne, eight years ago. lbn Hand, (he Wnhabi ruler and Sultan of Nejd, conquered Hejaz in l!>2f>. He proclaimed himself Sultan of Nejd and King of ilcjuz, and rn May, 11)27, Great Britain recognised the independence of his diniiinions by treaty. —British Official Wireless.