PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 105, 20 May 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Hon. W. E. Barnard, Speaker oi the Hotise of Representatives, left Wellington for Napier to-day. The Bishop of Waiapu, the Et. Eev Herbert Williams, haa been appointed by the Government' to the National Historical Committee of the New Zea land Centennial in 1940. Mr. G. I. Bickerstaff, of Napier, has received advice that he has been suqcessful in completing his final examination of the Australasian Instituto of Secretaries. Mr. R. J, McGill, M.B., Dunedin, and late of Auckland Hospital, has been appoint6d house physician to the dean at the Brompton Hospital for Diseasea of the Cheet, London. The Hon. I. H. Carruthers, of fcJuva, a member of the Samoan Legislative Council, arrived at Auckland by the Matua yesterday with Mrs. Carruthers to spend a holiday in New Zealand. Messrs. A. G. Nolan and F. Wray have been eleeted by Northern Hawke's Bay racing districts to attend the New Zealand Racing Conference at Wellington on July 9, and Messrs. W. H. Gaisford and P. F. Wai! are to represent Southern Hawke's Bay. Professor T. S. Steriing, formerly secretary of the Universities ' Bureau of the British Empire, who has been visiting New Zealand and Australia to inquire into the immigration problem, was a through passenger by the Niagara, which arrived at Auckland from Sydney on Monday., Professor Steriing is going to England to watch the outcome of the Imperial Conference discussions on immigration and he intentls to retufn ,to New Zealand nest year.