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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 18, 22 January 1935, Page 6

Personal

Mr S. E. McGregor, who is io succeed Air E. Gohns as head of the Labour Department in Wanganui, will arrive on Friday from Nelson. .Subject to the approval of the Alin ister of Health, the new medical superintendent of the Palmerston North Public Hospital will be Dr. J. H. North, resident surgical officer and tutor at the Dunedin Uospital. Hubert Carter, the New Zealand tenor, has already begun to be busy professionally in England. During November he appeared with the Municipal Orchestra at the municipal concerts at Eastbourne, and he sang at the Literary Association’s annual concert at Wanstead. This month he will be singing at the Palladium under the auspices of the National Sunday League. On February 2 h-e will take part in an Empire broadcast to Australia and New Zealand and in Alarch he will sing in “The Creation” with the Torquay Philharmonic Society. Air. Carter’s New Zealand accompanist, Stanley Morgan, is playing for him at his engagements.

The new manager for New Zealand of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, Ltd. (Mr R. B. Ashe), accompanied by his wife and two young sons, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Maunganui from Sydney. Mr Ashe, i whose headquarters will be in Wellington, succeeds Mr A, 11. Johns, who ( some time ago was appointed assistant , secretary of the society, and who is ’ at present in South Africa on inspec- ’ tion work. For the past eight years Mr Ashe has been manager of the South Australian branch at Adelaide. Referring to the new building in course of construction at Wellington, Mr Ashe said to an Evening Post reporter that one very much after the same style was opened in Adelaide in December. The society was going in for the same style, of architecture, the idea being that by this means people would be able to pick out the offices in the different centres. Mr Ashe, except for five years on active service with the Austra’ian Forces during the war. has been -with the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, Ltd., since 1910. He was for two years in France with Major-General Sir William. Sin-clair-Burgess, now G.0.C., New Zealand Military Forces. Mr Ashe added that his wife and he were looking forward with the greatest of pleasure to their sojourn in New Zealand. The people of New Zealand had a reputation for their hospitality. He said they had not been to New Zealand previously, and they were keen to see something of the country’s scenic beauties, which, they understood, were among the finest, if not the finest, in the world. HOTEL LISTS Guests registered at the New Rutland Hotel include: Miss R. Kirkbride, Mr. B. Kirkbride, Mr. G. L. Falk, Mr. T. E. Masters, Mr. G. L. Thorburn (Auckland); Mr. C. D. McCallum (New Plymouth); Mr. J. Fagan, l\lr. R. Black, Mr. J. Newman, Mr. John P. Page, Mr. S. O. Wylli-e, Mr. G. Ferris (Wellington); Mr. H. O. Rowland, Mr. F. Tilly (Christchurch). The following gue-shs registered at Foisiter’s Hotel yesterday: —M. and Mrs. G. E. Bryant and Miss M. Bryant (Honolulu); Captain and Mrs. C. Priest and Miss Priest (Sydney); Mrs. D. and Miss A. Logue (West Australia); Mr. A. F. B. Broadhurst. Rev. J. W. Beaufort (Takapuna); Mr. and Mrs. W. Martin and child, Mns. Fink, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Preston (Wellington); Mr. and Mrs. A. E. T. Langford and Mr. R. C. Langford and Miss Langford (Auckland); Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Thomas (Blenheim).