PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19100, 10 November 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr R. Girling Butcher, Government Inspector of Fire Brigades, is visiting Hamilton on official business.

Mr W. Barnard, Superintendent of the Palmerston North Firo Brigade, is spending a holiday in Hamilton.

Mr W. T. Collins, the District Superintendent of the Department of Agriculture, is in Hamilton.

Mr C. W. Vennell has returned to Cambridge after a six weeks’ visit to Australia.

Mr. W F. O'Donnell, secretary of the Auckland Metropolitan Agricultural and Pastoral Show, is visiting Hamilton for the Summer Show.

Mr. J. Hargest, M.P. for Invercargill, was granted three days’ leave of absence from the House of Representatives this morning, on account of urgent public business. A message from Richmond (Virginia) states that Mr Harry Byrd, a brother of Admiral Richard Byrd, has been elected United Stales Senator from Virginia.

Mr A. G. Ilodder, representing the Co-operative Wholesale Society, Ltd., of Manchester, Fin-gland, is a visitor at the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Show to-day.

Mr Lincoln Ellsworth, the American explorer, who has been in Christchurch for some time, left for Dunedin this week to await the arrival of his Antarctic expedition vessel, the Wyatt Earp.

Mr P. R. White, of the Bank of New Zealand staff, Wanganui, has been transferred to Te Kuili and leaves next Wednesday. Mr White is a member of the Wanganui and Old Boys’ Rugby Football Club, and has been honorary secretary for the club.

Captain ,T. Murray, an English journalist, who has been living in Sweden for some years, arrived at Auckland on Wednesday by the Akaron. lie will be engaged in writing a series of articles on general conditions in New Zealand for newspapers in Stockholm.