PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20784, 20 April 1939, Page 8

PERSONAL

The Prime Minister, the Right Hon. M. J. Savage, will leave for Auckland on Sunday night. He will inspect factories on Monday and on Tuesday lie will attend the Anzac dawn parade. On Wednesday lie will inspect more factories and he will return to Wellington that night. The Hon. R. Semple, Minister of Public Works, is expected to visit Kawhia on Saturday. He will be entertained to a day's fishing on the harbour on Sunday. The Hon. P. Fraser, Minister of Education, and the Hon. W. Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, will visit Huntly on Saturday to open the new Rakuhanga (Waahi) native school. Mr A. J. Shailer, of Palmerston North, is visiting Hamilton. Mr A. li. Dickson has been appointed assistant city electrical engineer in Dunedin.

Mr F. W. Doidge, M.P. for Tauranga, has returned home from hospital and is completely restored to health.

At the monthly meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board to-day a welcome was extended to Mr W. R. Lowry, who returned to his seat on the board after a long illness.

Mr R. Newcombe was re-elected president of the Cambridge Returned Soldiers’ Association at the annual meeting of the association last evening.

Messrs D. Mitchell (Rotorua), H. Malcolm, W. R. Blomfleld, W. C. Neil, M. Sutton, J. Winters (Auckland), R. Gibbons, F. H. Swan, E. Hennessy .Wellington) and H. Grant (Palmerston North) are at the Hamilton Hotel.

Mr W. G. Hollway, at present town clerk at Taihape, has been appointed from 41 applicants to a similar position at Dannevirke. He will succeed Mr G. T. O'Hara Smith, who has been appointed town clerk at Masterton.

Mr R. H. McKenzie, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Cooperative Dairy Company, Limited, Mr W. Marshall, director, and Mr C. J. Parlane, general manager, are in Wellington attending the Dairy Conference.

To become secretary and a member of the Naval Board, PaVmaster-Captain N. Cooper has arrived from England by the Akaroa. lie will replace Pay-master-Commander Tottenham and will be in the Dominion for three years. His most recent post was at Portsmouth, where he was attached to the torpedo school on H.M.S. Vernon. He joined the service in 1917, and served during the war on battlecruisers in the Atlantic Fleet.—P.A. Distinguished visitors to the Cambridge District High School on Tuesday were Sir Albert Ellis and Ladv Ellis. Sir Albert is one of the Cambr Ige School's old Boys, having been admitted on October Jl. 1880. Sir Albert addressed the scholars and presented to the school two autographed copies of ids books on Ngauru and Ocean Islands. Sir Albert has bomi a Commissioner on the Board of the British Phosphate Commissions Mio-e its inception in 1920. and in 1928. as a result of his services, lie was made a companion of the Order of St, Michael and St. George. Sir Albert will make his headquarters at Auckland.