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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18360, 31 March 1934, Page 3

PERSONAL

Lord and Lady Bledisloe, who have been fishing in the Lake Taupo district for the past few days, with headquarters at Taylor’S Camp, -Tokaanu. will return to Auckland to-day. During his stay in the district, His Excellency took the opportunity of visiting the Tokaanu and Waihi schools. Mr. Forgan Smith, the Queensland Premier, has been ordered a sea voyage and intends to visit England, Mr. and Mrs. T. 0. Kemp, Puha, have returned home after spending a few days in OpOtiki and Whakatane: The (toinmonwealth (Government is invitiug applications for an Assistant-Com-missioner to Mr. R. 11. Nesbitt, at present Australian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand. Messrs. E. Hamilton and Martin, members of the New South Wales Milk Board, sailed from Sydney by the Monowai for New Zealand to investigate trie municipal distribution of milk. A Gazette notice announces the appointment of Major-General Sir Andrew Russell to the National War Funds Council in place of ttie lute Mr. I*l. H. Williams. Sir Philip W. Street, K.C.M.G., Chief Justice of New South Wales, and Lady Street are passengers on the New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Rotorua, which is due at Auckland from London on April 5. His Honor Chief Judge R. N. Jones, of the Native Land Court, arrived in (Gisborne on Thursday afternoon, and during next week will sit with Judge McCormack as an Appellate Court at Gisborne. Judge McCormack is expected to arrive in Gisborne early in the week. Gisborne visitors to Napier for the Competitions include Miss Lorna and Master Raymond McNee, Mr. and Mrs Scott and their daughter, Bobbie, the Misses Sheila and Cecelia Munro, Mrs Sharpies and Miss Isabel Sharpies. The Rev. F. I. Parsons, of Holy Trinity parish, lias been discharged from hospital and lias now returned to his duties in the parish. His many friends will learn with pleasure that he has made a good recovery from his recent illness. Mrs F. Wrov Nolan and her daughter, Miss Pamela Price, Gisborne, who are at present the guests of Mrs H. S. Lawrence, Fcndnlton, were to have left Christchurch yesterday for Wellington on their way to Sydney, where they will spend a holiday.

A leading figure in the insurance world, Mr. Percy Graham MacKinnon, chairman of Lloyd’s, arrived at Auckland hv the Wa'ngUuclla. Mr. Percy, who is on a holiday tour round the world, expects to spend five weeks in New Zealand. After visiting South Island resorts, he hopes to enjoy some trout fishing at Taupo, and will return to Auckland to hoard the Aoraligi for Vancouver at the beginning of May.

Mr. J. W. Matthewson, who has been appointed assistant general manager of the Union Steam Ship Company, was born in Dunedin on August 4, 1879, and joined the service of the company in March, 1898. After serving at headquarters, and also at Strahan, Hobart, and Sydney, and as auditor of branches, ho was appointed assistant general traffic manager in August, 1919, and in March, 1926, was appointed manager at Newcastle, which position he held until March, 1931, when ho was called to the head office to take up the position of general manager.