PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 178, 14 August 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr Paul Lalbaxn, of Wanganui, was the adjudicator at the annual Central Taranaki drama festival at Stratford. Mr L. C. Rolls. general manager of Williams and Kettle, Ltd., Napier, returned to Napier yesterday morning after a visit to Australia. Sir Stenson Cooke, general secretary of the Automobile Association, Great Britain, and a vice-president of the lnternational Tourist Allianc.e, will arl'ive in New Zealand uext March on a short visit, Mr W. F. Wellwood, who has resigned* from his position as fat-stoek buyer for the Co-operative Wholesale Society, has accepted an appointment with Mes- s Allen and Findlay, Ltd., New Zealand representatives of Armours, Ltd, Mr F. G, Hall-Jones, of Invercargill, district governor of Botary in ,]^ew Zealand, is due-back in the Dominion this month, after having attended the world conference of Rotary at Nice. He will make a tour of New Zealand addressing Rotary clubs in the different centres and will be in Hawke's Bay about September 16. The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage,1 left Wellington last night for Auckland, to welcqnie the Minister of Finance, tlie Hon. W. Nash, who arrived_ at Auckland on the Mataroa this morning. This evening a civic roception will be tendered Mr Savage and Mr Nagb, and they will later attend a function arranged in their hononr by the Labour Party. Lieutenant H, N. C. Gudgeon, of the -lst Battalion Middlesex ltegiment (D.C.O.), is on leave in New Zealand from his regiment at Singapore. As the Middlesex and Taranaki Regiments are allied, he made a special visit to New Plymouth on Thursday to visit the Taranaki ltegiment and places associated witli tho old 57th Regiment (now tha Middlesex Regiment), which played a prominent part iu the Maori War in Taranaki,