PERSONAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18927, 22 April 1933, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. R. Cobbe, of The Chateau, is at the Hamilton Hotel.

Mr F. Avery, of Melbourne, is at the Hamilton Hotel.

Mr J. A. Marston is Gazetted as deputy-registrar of marriages, births and deaths at Te Awamutu.

Mr R. J. Gillies has been appointed registrar of births and deaths of Maoris at Ngaruawahia.

Mr A. A. Woodward, the Waikato County Council engineer, is on his annual vacation.

Mr P. Fraser, Mr R. Semple, Mr D. W. Coleman, Mr R. McKeen and Mr C. 11. Chapman, M’s.P., who have been attending the annual conference of the New Zealand Labour Party at Auckland, returned south last evening.

Mr A. 11. Kimbell, Under-Secretary for Mines, who paid a brief visit to Auckland yesterday to confer with representatives of the coal companies, left last night for Wellington.

The period of command of Lieuten-ant-Colonel R. D. McFarland, M.C., Ist Battalion, the Waikato Regiment, is extended to May 31, 1934, by notice in this week’s New Zealand Gazette.

Mr G. Hartshorn, manager of the Wellington branch of the Vacuum Oil Company, Proprietary, Limited, has been transferred to Auckland as manager of the company’s branch there. Mr B. Martin has arrived in Wellington from Auckland to act as manager of the Wellington branch. The Rt. Hon. ,T, G. Coates, Minister of Finance, addressed a luncheon meeting of the Auckland Credllmen’s Ciub yesterday. He returned north this morning and will attend Anzno Day services in the Kalpara electorate on Tuesday. Mr Coates will leave Auckland for Wellington on Weduesda y. At the annual meeting of the Waikato Hunt lasi evening a vote of sympathy was passed with Ihe relations of Ihe la I e Mr. ’Walter Stopford. The Master, Mr. Wynn Brown, spoke in high terms of Mr. Slopford’s work as secretary to the hunt over a number of years.