PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21056, 7 March 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL

The Hon. W. Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, is in Hamilton. To-day he attended a conference with representatives of local bodies in connection with ragwort, while tomorrow he will visit Huntly for the jubilee celebration of the Huntly District High School.

Mr A. Bullock, of London, is visiting Hamilton and is at the Hamilton Hotel.

Mr E. J. Fawcett, of Wellington, Assistant Director General of Agriculture, is visiting Hamilton.

Sir James Grose, chairman of directors of the National Mutual Life Association, was a visitor to Hamilton yesterday.

Mr W. A. Martin, of Wellington, manager for New Zealand for the National Mutual Life Association, was in Hamilton yesterday. Mr W. H. Paul, secretary of the Waikato Winter Show Association, has returned from a visit to the Exhibition, at Wellington. Mr G. Jamieson, of Horotiu, left for Whangarei this morning to judge the pig section at the Whangarei Agricultural and Pastoral show. Mr W. J. Earle, second assistantmaster at the Hamilton West School, has been promoted to first assistant i at Hamilton East. i Messrs H. Young (Palmerston ! North), M. Shortt (Auckland), J. T. Burnett, C. G. Lucas (Whakatane) and E. Mclntosh (Lower Hutt) are at the Hamilton Hotel. | The Rev. R. G. Bycroft, formerly ! of Hamilton, and who has been minj ister of the Whangarei Baptist Church I for some years, has accepted a call to the North-East Valley Baptist Church, Dunedin. The Rev. J. D. Jensen, of Mount Eden Baptist Church, has been appointed to Whangarei. 1 1 Mishap to Dredge ’ * The Greymouth Harbour Board’s . steam dredge Mawhera had her fore- : peak holed when she grounded in the . 1 lower reaches of the Grey River . yesterday afternoon while taking ; soundings. Pumping at 400 gallons : ( a minute failed to make any im- | pression in the level of the water.