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Evening Star, Issue 22444, 15 September 1936, Page 9

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Mr S. Lawn is on a business visit tof Wellington. Mr W. Begg left to-day for Christ-? church. Mr H. S. White travelled by the second express to-day to Wellington, where he will attend a sitting of tho Conciliation Council. Parliamentarians who returned to Wellington by the through express today were;—Hon. F. Waite, M.L C.. Dr D. G. M'Millan, and Messrs Adam Hamilton and P. Neilson. Mr S. D. Blomfield, of the staff of the Otago Farmers’ • Union Mutual Fire Insurance Association, and better known as the general secretary of the New Zealand Federation of Young Fanners’ Clubs, has been appointed to the outside staff of Fertilisers (South Island, N.Z.) Ltd. Mr Blomfield was met by the members of the staff of the Otago Farmers’ Union Mutual Fire Insurance Association yesterday and presented with a set of books as a mark of their esteem. In making the presentation, Mr A. C. Cameron, general manager, wished him. every success in his new sphere of activity. A Press Association message from Wellington states that the manager of the Wallabies, Mr E. G. Shaw, continues to show an improvement in health. He was out of doors yesterday for the first time since he was confined to bis bed at the Grand Hotel.. T. P. Pauling is still in bed, and is having special eye treatment. Neither he nor the manager will be _ able to visit the South Island, but will rejoin the team on its return to Wellington. The two Auckland nominees for tho Rhodes Scholarships to. be awarded in New Zealand this year were selected by the Professorial Board of Auckland University College as follows:—Mr George Lawrence Hogben and Mr George Clifford James Dagton. Mr A. C. Mitchell, of Wellington, New Zealand employers’ representative at the International Labour Conference at Geneva in June, will leave London by the Rangitiki bn September 17, on his return to the Dominion. The United Press Association special correspondent at Rarotonga advises that Judge H. F. Ayson (the Resident Commissioner) visited the lower group of islands for the purpose of administration and high court work towards the end of August, and returned to Rarotonga on September s.—Wellington Press Association. Captain John Benton, of Auckland, arrived at Rarotonga by the Makura to take up bis appointment as captain of the schooner Tiafe Taporo, in place of Captain Rasmussen, who is shortly taking up a position as resident agent at Penrhyn (720 miles north of Rarotonga) with the Cook Islands Administration.—Wellington Press Association. An Oamaru Association message states that Mr Alexander Sievwright, secretary of the Waitaki Hospital Board for the past 15 years, intimated to the board this morning that he is retiring on superannuation as froia March next. Mr Richard Moore, formerly a member of the Legislative Council, died in Christchurch on Saturday, in his eightyeighth year. For more than 50 years Mr Moore continued his public life with work on local bodies and in Parliament, and up to two years ago he still held, the position of chairman of the Lands Committee of the Legislative Council. Mr Moore’s parliamentary career started in 1890, when he was elected member for Kaiapoi. His second term in the House of Representatives ended inl9oo, and in all he spent six years in the House. In 1914 he was appointed a member of the Legislative Council, and relinquished that position about a year ago. He was twice married.