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Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 198, 10 November 1934, Page 4

Personal Pars

Mr. S. Skuse is a patient in the Stratford Hospital suffering from pneumonia. ■ '.-■ Mr. F. J. Ryan Commercial Hotel, lias returned from a visit to -Auckland, where his father is seriously ill. Mrs McMillan, Wellington, and Miss' Thornton, New .Plymouth, are .fcbfe guests of Mrs Walsh for the week end. '..... ■*.-'• Mr S. W. Shoppard, a member of the staff of the Stratford Public Trust Office for the past 18 month's," ha's received notice of transfer to Dunedin. Mr K. L. Usmar, representative in .the Parliamentary Press Gallery of the Auckland Star, has been "appointed to represent the United Press Association during the New Zealand tour of the Duke of Gloucester.

Mr J.,/PL Macl'ay,- general manager of the Gear Moat Preserving . and Freezing Company of Now Zealand, Ltd., returned to Wellington by t\\e Ma.rama on Tuesday after a business visit to England.

Mr G. Gordon-Taylor, 0.8. E., M.S., F.R.C.S., surgeon, of Middlesex Hospital, and Professsor G. A. Buckmaster. M.D., F.R.C.S., of Bristol University, have been appointed to, con duct the preliminary examinations of the Royal College of Surgeons .in Australia and New Zealand. 'They will arrive in the Dominion from Australia on. December 14.

Mr and Mi's James Syme, of Glasgow, Scotland, leff by the mail train this morning for Wellington en-route to the Melbourne centenary. They have been making ?, short tour of New Zealand in the course of which they were the guests of Mr and Mrs Percy Thomson, Stratford. Mrs Syme is a cousin of Mrs Thomson and Mr Syme is a retired manufacturing engineer .

:■ Y,r W. Dunninghiim, manager; ot Bellamy's, who i s roliring at the cud' of the year; was farewelled by, members of the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives' in Wellington on Wednesday evening. In making a r presentationi of- a, silver <ya pcrvice on behalf of 'members','the,; Prime Minister, Rt. lion. G. W. Forbes, paid a tribute to. Mr Dun iiingbani for the way he had cared fdr the wants of members during a number of years, and expressed regret Hint be was retiring. He wished him all possible happiness in the 'future. The remarks of Mr Forbes were supplemented by the Speaker of the Legislative Council, Hon: Sir Walter Carncross, and the Leader of the Opposition, Mr M. J. Savage. Mr jDumiiughani suitably replied.