PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 24, 12 February 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

-Press Assn.

The Governor-Generai, Viseount Galway, will on March 2 visit the East Coast in connection with the Bledisloe Cup awarded for proficiency in Maori farming, His Excellencv is to leave the steamer Matai at Hicks Bay and will proceed to Tikitiki, where the cere> mony is to take place. Mr I. Langdou Prlme, of Napier, left for Auckland to-day on a short business visit. Dr. Hugh Douglas and Dr. William Newlands have been appointed members of the Medical Council. — Presli Association. . Mr D. Mann, the newly-appointed borough traffic inspector, is expected to take up his duties in Hastings next week, the St. Kilda Borough Council, Dunedin, having agreed to this course. Mr F. H. Bastih. has bedn appointed by the Hastings Borough Council aa clerk of works in the laying-down oi the new borough sewerage outfall syatem. 1 Messrs J., Bibby, E. $. Bibby, W. fi. Coles, W. C. Freematttle, R. G. L. Glenny and E. C. Bradley have beexi appointed members of the Foregt Gata Doinain Board. Mr, P. Murphy, of the Oentral Hawke's Bay Aero Club, made a solo flight at Waipukurau yesterday. He is the first member of the club to rea'ch this stag© in his training. The Rev. J. W. Martin and M*r» Martin, of Mangarapa, Gisborne, "and formerly of Taradale, are to receive a letter of sympathy from the Taradale Town Board in th© recent loss of their eldest daughter, Miss Eunice Martin. Mr Gilbert Archey, director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, will leave shortly on a w.orld tour undef th©. auspices of the Carnegie Corporation Miss Christina MacKay, daughter of Mrs Norman MacKay, Hastings, and late of Maraekakaho, -syho repently passed the State maternity examination left yesterday fcc join the staff of Cook Hospital, Gisborne. Mr Noel C. Harding, Town Clerk at Hastings, was granted leave of ab. sence by the Hastings Borough Council last night to attend the annual conference of the New Zealand Institute of Town Clerks, which is to be held at Timaru on Marcb 9 next. Mr Harding is a vice-president of the institute.

The relatives of the late Mr PJxillip Scullin, overseer to the Hawke's Bay Rivers Board, are to receive a letter of sympathy from the Taradale Town Board. 'Ihe chairman, Mr J. Williamson, at the board meeting last night paid a tribute to Mi Scullin's services to the district and said that he was a well-tried servant who had always given of his best, »A big loss had been suffered By his passing Miss Jean Batten will leave on a visit to Australia by the Awatea nest Tuesday. She will be aecompanied by her mother. Miss Batten'a. Percival Gull monoplane} in which, last October she established a new solo record for a trip from England to Australia and • completed the joui'ney to New Zealand in less than 11 days, has been dismounted by the Auckland Aero Club and will he shipped abbard the Awatea on Tuesday Miss Batten intend* to ,xo a considerable amount of-flvina

in the Commonwealth.—