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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 143, 13 March 1939, Page 8

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Vice-Regal. At Government House on Saturday morning his Excellency the GovernorGeneral received Sir Harry Batterbee, the newly-appointed High Commissioner in New Zealand for 1-lis Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom. Ministerial. The Hon. H. G. R. Mason, Minister of Justice, will leave Wellington tonight for Tlniaru to open the conference of the Federation of Justices of the Peace. Sir Harry Twyford, immediate past Lord Mayor of London, is visiting Auckland. Mr. 11. R. Sellars left Wellington for the South Island by the steamer express on Saturday night. Dr. F. O. Bennett, Christchurch, arrived at Wellington by the steamer express on Saturday morning. Dr. J. Dempsey was a passenger from Wellington to Nelson .by Cook Strait Airways on Saturday. . Dr. Alau Tenucut has returned to Wellington after attending the Field Ambulance territorial camp iu Waiouru.

Mr. Norman Rishworth arrived at Wellington from Auckland on Saturday to attend a meeting of the New Zealand Dental Council today. Mr. A. M. Satterthwaite, Christchurch, who has been visiting Wellington, returned south by the steamer express on Saturday night. Mr. K. O. Thomson, 'Wellington, has been granted a fellowship in tlie New Zealand Society of Accountants with the status of F.P.A.N.Z. (fellow public accountant).

Mr. AV. H. Price, former branch manager in Wellington for the Union Steam Ship Company, returned to Wellington from a visit to tlie South Island on Saturday.

Messrs. G. AV. Thomson, I. D. McAllister, and AV. J. Robson, Wellington, have been admitted to membership of the New Zealand Society of Accountants with tlio status of A.P.A.N.Z. (associate public accountant). Mr. W. E. Anderson, secretary of the Auckland Employers’ Association, arrived at Wellington on Saturday to attend conciliation council proceedings for Dominion awards for storemen and packers and also lime workers. He will return next Saturday.

Messrs. A. R. Bamford, E. J. Barry, M. G. H. Taylor, C. P. Clarkson, W. A. Cummings, E. M. Edgecombe, 1. B. L Hickson, J. I. JI- Hill > A - J ; McDonald, P. I. F. Saunders, and F. C. Tuck (ail of Wellington), 1. George (Silvcrstream), E. AV. Mills (Lower Hutt), and G. M. Hayton (letone) have been admitted to membership of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, with the status of A.K.A.N. (associate registered accountant).

Mr. IV. .1. Mountjoy, secretary of the Wellington Employers’ Association, who will attend the 1939 conference ot the International Labour Office in Geneva as the representative of Hie employers of New Zealand, will leave Wellington on April 13 by the Manganella for Sydney, connecting there with the Orford, travelling via Suez to Naples and thence overland to Geneva. At the conclusion ot the conference Mr. Mountjoy intends to visit France, England, Canada and the United States of America, where be will make contact with industrial organizations. By special invitation he will also visit in England firms which have manufacturing plants in New Zealand as well as conferring with representatives of builders and butchers. Mr. Mountjoy expects to be absent from New Zealand for six months, returning in October.