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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18539, 9 April 1930, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Admiral Byrd arrived in Wellington yesterday and was given a civic reception.

Mr F. W. Miller, general secretary of the Public Servants’ Association, is staying at the Grosvenor. A cable message from London reports that Mr Edgar Wallace has been adopted as liberal candidate for Aylesbury Division, in Buckinghamshire.

The Governor-General and Lady Bledisloe arrived in Christchurch yesterday morning, and were enthusiastic ilv welcomed. They attended a civic reception at noon, and were presented with an address.

j.,_. Harold Ward, of Auckland, and late of Timaru, has been appointed judge for the elocutionary section of the Adelaide Competitir n Society’s 1930 festival. Mr Ward has also been booked for a series of recitals in Australia.

A report received from Vancouver, from Dayton (Ohio) states that Sir Frank Nelson (Conservative member for Stroud, in Gloucester, in the British House of Commons, announces that he is resigning from Parliament to become general manager of the British branch of the Dayton Cash Register concern.

A cable message from Canberra announces that the Hon. Frank Brennan (Federal Attorney-General), will represent Australia at the League of Nations Conference this year. The Prime Minister, the Hon. J. H. Scullin, and the Hon. Parker Moloney (Minister of Markets) will be Australia’s representatives at the Imperial Conference.

The representative of the League of Nations, Mr E. J. Riches, M.A., who is to lecture in Timaru on Thursday evening, under the auspices of the League of Nations Union, is a native of South Canterbury. His early home was at Geraldine, where he received his primary education. Later he attended the Timaru Boys’ High School, completing his course there as Dux of the School and qualifying for a University Scholarship. At Canterbury College. Mr Riches distinguished himself in economics and finally, as the result of a competitive examination, was appointed to a position in the International Labour Office of the League of Nations at Geneva. He has now spent three years in most interesting work in the Research Department of the Labour office and is at present in New Zealand on duty in connection with the League. On the way back to Geneva, Mr Riches will spend eight or nine months in American Universities. Mr Riches is the only New Zealander who has been in the International Labour office, and he has made a close study of the work.