PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19379, 17 July 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

Cr. C. Vigor Brown, Hawke’s Bay, was a visitor to Gisborne to-day. Mr. L. J. O’Flaherty, Birrell street, Te Hapara, returned home yesterday after spending six weeks under surgical treatment in Wellington.

Mr. J. E. Benson, Poverty Bay provincial president of the- Farmers’ Union, is exoected to return home tomorrow after attending the Dominion conference in Wellington this week. Lieut. -Commander W. H. Watt, who holds the appointment of officer in charge of civil aerodromes in India, was a visitor to Gisborne to-day in the course of a holiday tour of New Zealand-

Passengers by East Coast Airways' planes between Gisborne and Napier yesterday included Mesdajncs Ellis and McLoughlin; Miss Harris; Messrs. B. Cullinane, 11. L. Allen, F .G. Watkins, Castle, F. A. Kibblewhite, C. Harries, and Master B. McLoughlin. Advice has been received of the appointment of Mr. Lowell C. Pinkerton, now serving in Washington, as Consul-cGneral for the United States in New Zealand. Mr. Pinkerton is understood to have seen service in London. For the past four years he has been attached to the personnel division of the State Department, Washington. He is 42 years of age and is married. Mr. C. 11. William's, president, and Mr. Lawson Field, of the Poverty Bay Sheepowncrs’ Union executive, have been nominated as delegates to the annual conference of the New Zealand Sheepowncrs' Federation, which is to take place in Wellington on July 28. The district union is entitled to three delegates to the conference, and the sub-association at Ruatoria is to be asked to nominate the third,