PERSONAL.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2316, 27 March 1930, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Dr Vilnits, who is motor-cycling round the world and who spent some time in Cambridge, sailed for the United States yesterday. Mr A. E. Sandford, formerly manager of the Feilding branch of the Union Bank of Australia, took over the duties of manager of the Hamilton branch of the bank on Tuesday from Mr J. EL Page, who has retired.

Messrs H. Lewis and W. H. Reed, well known erstwhile residents of the district and now of Tauranga, were in Cambridge on Tuesday night, in connection with the Lodge Alpha Masonic function. They left again for Tauranga yesterday morning. Mr and Mrs Geo. Gutry and family leave Roto-o-rangi on .Saturday morning for Onewhero, near Tuakau, where Mr Gutry has been appointed headmaster of the school. Mr and Mrs Gutry have been valued members of the district for the past ten or eleven years.

Mr C. H. McKay, who has been secretary of the Morrinsville A. and P. Association for the past nine years, was farewclled at Morrinsville on .Saturday last, when he was presented with a gold wristlet watch. Mr McKay also received presentations from the Morrinsville Borough Council and the Golf Club.

Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral, Lord Bledisloe* and Lady Blcdisloe, will pay a brief first visit to Auckland next week, arriving from Wellington by the limited express on Tuesday morning, and leaving on the return journey the following evening. Their purpose is to visit the main centres of the Dominion before Easter.

Mr and Mrs W. Maberly returned to Cambridge on Sunday last, after a most enjoyable motoring holiday. They travelled to New Plymouth, Wangariui, and returned via some of the roads near the Main Trunk railway, covering some 900 miles in all. They report that the roads were, on the whole, In very fair order. They experienced delightful weather during the whole of their holiday. At the social accorded to the Gutry and Lewis' families, at Cambridge" on Tuesday evening, the opportunity was availed of to express hearty apprecia-"' tion of the services rendered the local Methodist circuit by Rev. Wesley Parker, who has been acting as "supply" for the past three months. Mr Frank Pcnn (circuit steward) thanked Mr Parker for his fine services, and assured him he would carry away with him the best wishes of everyone for a long and useful ,life in the work of the ministry in which he was just commencing. Judging by the fine impression he had made at Cambridge, Mr Penn said all

were assured Mr Parker would make a name for himself in the ministry.