PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17503, 27 February 1931, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr. G. C. Munns, M.P. for Boskill, lias been indisposed, and is confined to bis borne.

Captain J. Aitken, of London, arrived at Auckland by tlio Niagara on a business (rip to- New Zealand, Mr. \V. F. Javvie, superintendent of telegraphs at. Wanganui, has retired after 40 years' service.

Mr. 11. I). Swan, representative of tlio New Zealand Cricket Council in England, lias arrived at- Auckland. He is visiting the Dominion to complete arrangements for Hie forthcoming tour of New Zealand’s ericket team in Great Britain. Delegates of the Rotorua Country Political League, at a meeting in Mat-a-mnia, selected Mr. 1). ,R. F. Campbell, of Paeron, to contest the Rotorua seat at the next election in the interests of the Country Party.

Professor Marshall Allan, of (be chair of midwifery at Mebourho University, arrived in Gisborne last evening from Rotorua, Gisborne was to have been the main objective of his tour of New Zealand, and Professor Allan had come prepared to address here the annual conference of the New Zealand division of the BALA. The adandonment- of tlio conference owing to the earthquake disaster was a matter of regret to Professor Allan, but it was not allowed to interfere with bis visit to Gisborne. a centre be bad not previously seen. In lieu of his conference engagement here, the Melbourne authority placed himself in the hands of the B.M.A. executive here, and to-day was faced with a programme comprising a demonstration at St. Helen’s Hospital, an address to women at the Y.M.C.A. rooms this afternoon, and a round-table discussion with members of the medical profession this evening. The programme enables Professor Allen to meet the nursing sisterhood, the womenfolk of the town, and the medical profession in a series of functions calculated to he of general benefit.