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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 56, 29 November 1937, Page 4

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Mr. E. L. Cullen, M.P., left Hastings this morning for Wellington after spending the iveek-end in his electorate. Mr. E. D. Rex, of the Audit Department, Wellington, has been appointed chief clerk to tbe Hamilton Borough Council. Mr R. F. Batchelor, Mayor of Lawrence, who has been spending a holiday at Napier, has returned to the South Island. Captain A. Bongard, M.C., New Zealand Staff Corps, who for the past year has been area officer at Palmerston North, has been appointed area staff officer at Dunedin. Mr T. Hayes, Auckland, has been transferred to "Waipukurau, where he will replace Mr G. De La Haye, of the railway clerical staff, who has gone to Napier on promotion. Mr. (Jr. L, Host, of Sydney, Danisb Consul General for Australia and New Zealand, arrived at Auckland ou Friday after a holiday visit to Denmark. He waa accompanied by Mrs. Host. Professor A. J. Eames, of Cornell Ohiversity, America, arrived at Auckland to-day on the Aorangi from Sydney. He will spend two months in tha Dominion studying the native flora. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Linton, of West Hartlepool, England, who are visiting New 5 Zealand, spent the week-end with friends in Hastings and left this morn ing for Wellington enroute to Nelson. The following five members have been appointed to .the Fireblight Committee to represent the Hawke's Bay commercial fruitgrowing district -. Messrs. S. Holmes, J. H. Milne, T. Mitpliell, R. Paynter and A. M. Morri? , Mr H. A. Peterson has been appointed trade eommissioner in the Netherlands East Indies in place of Mr Critchley, who is to be trade eommissioner in New Zealand. Mr J. L. Menzies will be assistant trade eommissioner in New Zealand. Mr. T. M. Wilson, who for tho past four years has- been stationed in Washington, passed through Auckland on Friday on the Monterey for Sydney, where** he is to take up a position as Consul-General for the United States m Australia. Sir Thoinas and Lady Henderson, of "Lattglands," Hawjck, Scotland, are due to arrive at Auckland on December 24 by the Mariposa. Sir Thomas, who st a hosiery jnanufacturer, is ' M.P. fot- Roxburgh and Selkirk, and a past-president of the Soutli Scotland Chambc-i' of CommerceThe Rev. D. J. Davies, B.Sc., vioar of All Saints' Clmrch, Kilbirnie, and former ly of St. Pcter's, Terrace End. has been appointed vicar of St. Paul's Pro-Catliedral as successor to Canon Percival James, who is now vicar of Halifax, England. Mr. Davies is ex peeted to go to St. Paul's toward the end of February. Dr. R. J. R. Mecredy, formerly of the Waikato hospital staff has volunteered for service in the Chinese Air Force, or alternatively with the Chinese Red Cross in Shanghai. Dr. Mecredy, -who learned to fly at Hamilton in 1934, has been in communication with the Chinese Consul in Sydney, and hopes to hear shortly that his application for service in the air force had been aceeuted, although his age is 49..