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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 90, 10 January 1935, Page 8

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Ministerial. The Rt. Hon. J. G- Coates, Minister of Finance, will leave Dnrgaville toward the end of this week and is due in Wellington on Monday.

Dr. A. H. B, Pearce, chief medical officer to the Government of Fiji, left for Suva by the Niagara on Tuesday. Mr. W. Cathro, a prominent,Sydney business man, is staying in Wellington at the St. George Hotel.

Mr. C. 'VV? Rattray, Dunedin, a director of the Union Steam Ship Company, was a visitor to Wellington yesterday. Mr. A. J. Park returned to Wellington yesterday after a visit to Christchurch.

Dr. N. W. Pryde, of Invercargill, arrived ,in Wellington from the south yesterday morning. Mr D. Ardell, of the Department of Internal Affairs, intended to leave Wellington last night for the south. Sir Cyril and Lady Ward and Mr. J. G. D. Ward, of Wellington, returned from the south‘yesterday morning.

Commander R. M. Reynolds, R.N.R. (ret.), travelling commissioner for the Royal Empire Society, has been visiting Christchurch.

Mr. J. P. Reid, of W. D. and H. O. Wills, Wellington, was booked to leave Wellington for Auckland by last evening’s Limited express. The Hou. Alport Barker, Mayor of Suva, who has been on a holiday visit to the Dominion, left by the Niagara on his return on Tuesday. Mr. E. J. Chennells, headmaster of the Medbury School, who has bee'n spending a holiday in Wellington, has returned to Christchurch. Sir Archibald Edmonstone will arrive early in February to make a tour of New Zealand. Sir Archibald was at cue time Groom-iri-Waiting tp Kiog Edward VII.

Dr. Guy H. Scholetield, Piirlhinientary librarian, and Mr Gavin Scholefield returned to Wellington by yesterday’s steamer express after making a motor tour of the South Island. Dr. J. B. Condliffe, of tlie Economic Intelligence Service of the League of Nations, who'has been spending several weeks In Christchurch, intends to visit (he North Island before leaving for Australia on his way back to Geneva.

Mr. E. Emanuel Goldborger, technical representative of'- an American radio corporation, who is making a business visit to New Zealand, was booked to leave Wellington for Auckland by last night’s Limited express. Brigadier-General Sir Alexander llore-Ruthven, V.C., a former Governor of'South Australia, and Governor designate of New South Wales, has left London on a world tour. He will visit New Zealand. Major M. Marshall and Commandant G. Wheeler, who have been in charge of the Salvation Army in Whangarei for the past., year, have received notice of transfer to Greymouth. They will be succeeded by ■ Adjutant.and Mr t «. Armstrong, of Hawera. The chief librarian of Wellington. Mr. J. Norrie, who, under the benefits of the Carnegie Trust, has been making a tour of the United States, is now visiting England also, and expects to leave there for New Zealand on February 2 next, arriving in Wellington about March 18.

Dr. F. P. Keppel, president of the Cftrnegie Trust Corporation of New York, will arrive at Auckland about the middle of this month on a comprehensive tour of New Zealand. He is due in Wellington early in February. During his visit to the Dominion Dr. Keppel will ipeet representatives of the Government and educational institutionfs.

Mr. W. Teeling. a member of the governing council of the Overseas League, who represented the league at the Melbourne centenary celebrations, is a passenger on the Niagara on his way to Suva. He will return to Auckland for four days later in the month prior to visiting southern centres. Ho is on a world tour on behalf of the Overseas League.

Professor A. G. B. Fisher, who holds the chair of economics in the University of Otago, has been invited by.the Senate of the University of Western Australia to become professor of economics from the beginning of 1936. Professor Fisher is on leave as economic adviser to the Bank of New South Wales. Sydney. He graduated at the University of Melbourne, in which he was afterwards a lecturer.

Mr. E. J. E. Ilolmwooil, artist in charge of the Railways Advertising Production Department. Christchurch, who has been granted six mouths’ leave of absence, will sail to-day by the Monowai for Sydney, where lie will join Hie Chang Te for Hong-Kong. While in Hong-Kong he will be associated with the Advertising and Publicity Bureau Ltd., in connection with he British Trade Fair for 1935. He hopes, while in the East, to add to his knowledge in publicity and art fields.