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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 92, 12 January 1935, Page 6

PERSONAL

Ministerial. The Rt. Hou. J. G. Coates, Minister of Finance, arrived at Auckland by car from Dargavillo last evening. The Minister will be engaged on official business to-day, and will leave for AVellington by train to-morrow evening. The Hon. S. G. Smith, Minister of Education, arrived at: Auckland yesterday morning. Mr. Smith represented the Government at the blessing of the new Mater Alisericordine Hospital building by Cardinal Macßor.v. He will leave for Taranaki by train to-morrow evening. »

Sir Michael Myers, Chief Justice, returned to AVellington yesterday from the South Island. He lms been spending the vacation at Dunedin. Dr. E. L. Marchant, of AVellington, has returned from the Taupo district. Mr. AV. E. Reynolds, of Dunedin, arrived at AVellington yesterday. Mr. J. A. Redpath jun., of Christchurch, arrived at AVellington from Lyttelton yesterday. Mr. G. AV. Wright, who has been visiting Australia and Tasmania, has returned to AVellington. Mr. Briton Smith, of Wellington, returned from the south by yesterday,s inter-island express steamer. Mr. B. C. A. AVhitcombe, of Christchurch, arrived at AVellington by the express-steamer yesterday morning. He returned by last night’s ferry. Mr. 11. G. Hobday has returned to AVellington after a tour of North Island centres in which he produced a number of plays. Mr. G. H. Mackley, general manager of New Zealand Railways, returned to AVellington from the south yesterday morning. Detective-Sergeant L. Revell, of AVellington, has recovered from the illness which has kept him in hospital for the past few months. He will resume his duties in February.

Mr. Claude Kingston, concert director witli the Grenadier Guards Band, arrived from the south yesterday morning. Mr. Kingston will proceed to Auckland to-day.

Major G. Miller, and the members of (he Grenadier Guards Band, will arrive "from Pictoa by the 'J’amabine this morning. They will leave almost immediately by train for Levin, and will be at Hastings and Napier to-morrow. Professor Peter McCallum, Professor of Pathology, Melbourne University, who has been touring - Great Britain, Europe and United States, left for Melbourne by the Monowai on Thursday after visiting relatives in New Zealand.

Mr. Cyril King lias been elected Mayor of Levuka, Fiji. Mr. King, who who has spent nearly the whole of his life at the islands, is tiie second son of the late Mr. TV. A. King, a veteran journalist, and publisher of the "Polynesian Gazette,” who died suddenly at a great age recently.