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Southland Times, Issue 23180, 22 April 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

The” Hon. T. F. Doyft, M.L.C., returned from Wellington by the express last evening. Mr James Hargest, M.P. for Awarua, who is at present in the Waikato district, will return home on Saturday night. Mr A. Cameron, retired Oriental manager of the Canadian Pacific Railways, left Auckland by the Aorangi on his return to Canada after a holiday visit to New Zealand. Sir Frederick Tout, a director of the Australian Mutual Provident Society,, and of Sun Newspapers, Sydney, who was at Wellington on a brief business visit, left for Sydney yesterday. Guests at the Grand Hotel include Messrs E. W. Wallace and F. S. Tatton (Wellington), J. P Noonan and W. Wood (Christchurch) and G. Blackwood and H. Thomas (Dunedin). Among the guests at the Club Hotel are Messrs H. Frostick, N. Howe and D. Fouhy (Christchurch), Brown (Wellington) and A. Kaye, H. L. Steadman, S. G. Spence and Randall (Dunedin). Messieurs J. Mayoroff, Owsipov, Velokovsky, and Gnedash, who are members of the Russian sheep buying commission visiting New Zealand, arrived in Southland yesterday and are guests at the Club Hotel. Dr W. Hellenthal, German Consul in New Zealand and Samoa, left Wellington by the Maui Pomare on a visit to Western Samoa and American Samoa. He is expected to return bv the Matua on May 19. Mr S. C. Doyle, superintendent of the New Zealand Railways’ Road Motor Services, and Mr H. C. Lusty, Railways’ Inspecting Engineer, both of Wellington, are in Invercargill on departmental business. Mr Charles E. Begg and Mrs C. Begg, sen., Dunedin, left Auckland by the Aorangi on an extended visit to the United States of America, England, and the Continent. Mr Begg will attend the Philco Radio Annual Convention in New York. The Leader of the Opposition (the Hon. Adam Hamilton) is visiting South Canterbury, where he will be engaged for two or three days before coming to Invercargill for Anzac Day. He will deliver a political address in Invercargill on May 4. Mr John McGregor was re-elected president of the Caledonian Society of Invercargill at the annual meeting last night. Tributes were paid to his conduct of the affairs of the society and the active part he had played in reviving the society after a lapse of 12 years. The Rev. Belshazzar Gina, who has spent eight years as a missionary in the West Solomons, is visiting Wellington. Mr Gina was educated at a Methodist district school in the Solomons and later at Wesley College, Paerata, before being admitted to the Methodist Church as a minister and returning to his native islands. Mr C. K. Jackman, the Canterbury, South Island and New Zealand representative wicket-keeper, has been transferred to Auckland. He has been Canterbury’s best wicket-keeper for the last three seasons and gained his international cap in Test matches against E. R. T. Holmes’s M.C.C. team last season. —Press Association. Mr W M. Singleton, Director of the Daily Division, will return north today after making a brief visit to Southland. He and Mr T. C. Brash, secretary to the New Zealand Dairy Board, were present last evening at the function held in honour of the success-of the Drummond co-operative dairy factory at the London Daii-y Show.