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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 81, 29 December 1934, Page 10

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Ministerial. ■ The Hom J. G. Cobbe, Minister of .Justice, left Wellington last evening by train for Feilding. where he will spend the New Year holidays. He expects to return next Thursday. Sir Henry Davies, of Dunedin, arrived in Wellington by the steamer, express yesterday morning. Flight-Lieutenant Somerset Thomas left Wellington yesterday for the north. Mr. Gilbert Burns, clerk to the Wallace County Council, has arrived in Wellington. Dr. and Mrs. Beveridge Davis arrived in Wellington from the south yesterday. Captain H. Jump, who left London on November 15, will arrive in New Zealand on a fishing tour on January 26. Sir Charles Clifford, of Christchurch, who has been on a brief visit to Auckland, returned by the Limited yesterday. Mr. F. W. Mothes, pianaging director of the Goldberg Advertising AgencyLtd., will leave to-day by the Mariposa from Auckland on a snort business trip to Sydney and Melbourne. Colonel P. AL McFarlane, of the Australian Staff Corps, is a passenger by the Oronsay, which will arrive at Wellington this morning. Since July he has been acting-commandant of New South Wales, and was the State Marshal during the visit of the Duke of Gloucester. Mr. A. H. Batten Poole, of Oxford, England, who has been trout-llsbing at Taupo and Dannevirke, is a visitor to Wellington. Later he is to tour the South Island, and at the conclusion oi his visit it is his intention to visit Samoa and, later, South America. Mr. C. J. B. Norwood, managing director of the Dominion Motors, Ltd., is due to -arrive in Auckland to-day from San Francisco. Mr. Norwood who has been on an extended tour of Great Britain, and the United States, will probably arrive in Wellington to-mor-row. ' Mr. Neville Newbold, a graduate of Otago University and Canterbury College, is reported to have accepted a position in the engineering department of the Byrd Expedition’s ship Bear of Oakland. The vessel will sail for the Antarctic in a few days. Mr. Jap Eng Ho of Batavia, a Javanese of high rank, who has been visiting Melbourne in connection with the Centenary celebrations, came to Dunedin by the Alaheno this week, and is due here to-morrow morning from Lyttelton. He will tour the North Island, and will leave Auckland for San Francisco by the Mariposa on January 12. \ Dr, R. S. Aitken, D.Phil. (Oxford), M. 8., Ch.B. (New Zealand), M.R.C.P.. since 1930 first assistant to the medical unit at the London Hospital, has been appointed to the readership in medicine, London University (British PostGraduate Medical School). Dr. Aitken. who is the elder sou of the Revl Jarnos Aitken. M.A., of Gisborne, was a 1924 Rhodes Scholar. He was educated at Gisborne High School and the University of Otago before going to Balliol College, Oxford.