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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 45, 22 February 1936, Page 8

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VICE-REGAL The Governor-General, Viscount Galway, and Viscountess Galway were welcomed to the Urewera country bv a large gathering of the Tuhoe tribe at Waikirikiri, Ruatoki, on Tuesday afternoon. The Vice-Regal party is spending several days fishing in riven: of the Whakatane Valley. Addresses were given by four chiefs, Takarua. .1 aiakc-a, Mika, and Trainor, and tlivii followed a haka of welcome. A little daughter of Trainor, on behalf of the tribe, presented the Governor-General with a carved walking stick, and Viscountes* Galway with a piu piu. The party was also entertained to afternoon tea at the Maori meeting house. Dr. C. B. Gilberd, of Auckland, is visiting his parents in Wanganui. Mr. Stanley S. Scott, managing-direc-tor of Bcrlei (N.Z.), Limited, has returned to Auckland after a business tour of the North and South Islands. Professor A. P. W. Thomas has been mad-e a life member of the Auckland Institute and Museum, with which he has been associated for many years. Miss Mona Leydon, of Auckland, who is to visit Wanganui next week in her capacity as Australian and New Zealand champion woman swimmer over 440 and 220 yards, will be the guest of Mr and Mrs Stan Moore, of the Impciial Hotel. Reference to the death of Mr. F. Symes was made at Thursday night's meeting c-f the Wanganui Garrison Band and Citizens’ Committee, and a motion of sympathy was carried with the relatives. Mr. Symes was patron of the Queen Alexandra's Own Bar I. Mr. IL E. Cuthbertson, of Wanganui, met with a painful accident on Tuesday, as a result of which his left eye was severely injured, the socket also being fractured. He will be confined to his home for a considerable time, but is progressing as frell as can be expected. Mr. J.co Connelly, fat stock buyer, has received notice of his transfer from Wanganui to Masterton, and leaves this morning for his new post. Mr. Connelly is a well-known New Zealand Rugby player, and his departure will mean a serious loss to the Marist Rugby Club, Wanganui, and to the Wanganui representative team. He played full-back for Wanganui on a number of occasions last season. Mr. Frank Goldberg, governing director of the Goldberg Advertising Agency, Limited, Australia and New Zealand, who is at present on a vh*il to his Nuw Zealand organisation, convened a special meeting of his executive staff in Wellington recently. At this meeting Mr. K. G. Kearney, Wellington manager, Mr. H. B. Riggs, secretary, Mr. J. T. Miles, Auckland manager, and Air. IS. J. Wearu, Christchurch manager, were appointed to the directorate. Mr. K. G. Kearney wa* also appointed to the position of acting-general manager of the Ncr Zealand company. Miss M. Cormack, of the commercial staff of the Taranaki Daily News, has accepted a position on the staff of the New Zealand Hejald, and takes up her new duties at the beginning of March. In her capacity as private secretary to the late Air. T. C. List, especially during Air. List’s term as district governor of Rotary in New Zealand, Aliss Cormack became intimately associated with the Rotary movement in its wider t-pheiT, and when the Crippled Children’s Society was founded largely as a result of Air. List’s work Aliss Cormack was appointed secretary of the New Plymouth branch, a position whieh she *till holds. Her departure from New Plymouth will be a serious loss to the sori-et y.