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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 108, 8 May 1936, Page 6

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! The Mayor of Wanganui, Mr. W. J. Rogers, and the deputy-Mayor, Mr. J. Robertson, were visitors to WellinHi'ii yesterday on Harbour Board business. Mr. . M atters leaves Wanganui tomorrow morning for Wellington, where he will adjudicate the National Eisteddfod. He wil broadcast from 2YA on Sunday, May 17. Mr. Phil Maddock, geneial manager for the Mctro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture Corporation in New Zealand, is on a business visit to Wanganui and is a guest at the Rutland Hotel. A British Official Wire J e ns mes.-ngc reports that the death has occurred of the authore-ss, Beatrice Harradcn whose novel “Ships That Pass in the Night,” had an immense vogue in the nineties. She wa>s aged 72. .Major J. 11. Kiik, a director vi tfiv Austriiiiaii Provincial Assurance As sociation, and chairman of t’lie Dominion headquarters of the Soldiers’ Civil Rc-cstab.ishnieiit League, who has been seriously ill iu Sydney during the past four months, returned to Wellington bv the Wangsnella. Mr. U. H. Eckersiey, manager uf the Wanganui branch of the Provident LifeAssurance Co., is leaving for Melbourne to-morrow. Mr. Eckersley, who has been appointed manager of the Melbourne branch, was this week farewelled by social organisations iu phe city. Mr. J. A. McFarlane, a paitner in the firm of McFarlane ami Burns Pty., Ltd., Melbourne, manufacturers aad printers of waxed papers, arrived at Wellington from Australia by the Wan ganella. Mr. McFarlane intends to tour New Zealand and to investigate the advisability of establishing a .lac tory in the Dominion. 'J'hc Lev. Dr. T. Ferrier llulme, M.A., LL.D., who is regarded as the geeatesi Jiving authority on John We.>lcv and the Methodist Church, was a passengei on the Wanganelhi. Dr. Huhne is returning to England aider representing tdie British. M.-ethodist Church at the centenary celebrations of the Methodist Church in the various states of Australia. Major K. G. C. Dennys, who has been 2o- years in the .British Army in India, and is now on his way to England on leave, was a passenger on the Wanganella, which arrived al Wellington from Australia on Wednesday. Major Dennys intends to remain in New Zealand fur about a month. He served in the Great War and look part in some of the earlier battles, in whicdi he was badiy wounded and taken prisoner. Mr. M. J. M.uArtiiey, of the I’ahnciston North branch oli the Bouth Brit ish Insurance Company, has received advice of his promotion to the posi tion of manager of the Wanganui branch of the company. Air. McArtney has been resident in Palmerston North for five years and a-half. Air. AtcArtney is well known in Wanganui, having been a member of the staff of the South British Office in this city , some years agcu