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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1938, Page 4

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Mr H. T. Byrn, of Masterton, underwent an operation in the Wellington Hospital on Tuesday. He is reported to be progressing very well. The Rev L. J. Boulton Smith, minister of the Vivian Street Baptist Church, Wellington, has accepted a call to the Oxford Terrace Church, Christchurch, which ’is one of the largest Baptist congregations in New Zealand. Mr H. M. Rushworth, formerly member of Parliament for Bay of Islands, who .is a patient in a private hospital in Auckland following the amputation of a leg' which was seriously injured in the Great War, is making a good recovery. ■Mr J. D. Anderson, who has been manager at Wanganui for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, for the past 15 years, will retire on superannuation at the end of this month. He has been in the service of the company for nearly 40 years. A cablegram reports that the British Prime Minister (Mr Neville Chamberlain) has left London for Chequers, where he will spend Christmas with his family. He will remain there till after the New Year, when he will go north to stay with friends before breaking his holiday on January 10 to visit Rome. On a three weeks’ visit to New Zealand, Lord and Lady de Ramsey, of Abbots, Ripton Hall, Huntingdon, arrived by the Monterey at Auckland yesterday after visiting America. During their stay in the Dominion they will be the guests of the GovernorGeneral and Lady Galway. They will return to England via Australia and the Dutch East Indies. Lord de Ram-I sey succeeded his grandfather as the third Baron de Ramsey in 1925.

Cabinet has selected Mr F. B. Dwyer, accountant of the Internal Affairs Department, to proceed to England to attend the Imperial . Defence College for 12 months. Mr Dwyer, with his wife and family, will leave Wellington on Monday for Auckland to connect with the steamer. The Imperial Defence College in London was opened in January, 1937, and was formed for the study by selected officers of the fighting services and civilian officials on problems in Imperial defence with a view to training them in the broadest aspects of Imperial strategy. In the course of a liaison visit to all the British Dominions, Mr H. D. Hall, of the information section of the League of Nations Secretariat, arrived from the United States of America at Auckland yesterday by the Monterey. Mr Hall, who last visited New Zealand in 1936, will confer with the Government on matters within the purview of the League and will leave for Australia after a stay of 12 days in the Dominion. He passed through Canada on his way to New Zealand and after spending a period of leave in Australia will proceed to South Africa.