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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 69, 14 December 1937, Page 4

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Mr E L. Cullen, M.P., is visiting the Wairoa district. Miss D. M. Artbur, principal of the Napier Girls' High Sehool, resumed her duties on November 15, after having been ab'sent cn sick leave. Mr Sefton Emmett, of Napier, was successful in passing the pure mathematics and physics sections of his B.Sc. dcgree at the recent Victoria University examinations. Inspector D. Cameron, reeently-ap-pointed officer-in-charge of tho Hawke's Bay police district, is paying his first visit to the stations in the Wairoa county. Mr D. S. MoLeod, Hawke's Bay representative on the New Zealand Fruit Export Control Board, left Hastings this morning for Wellington to attend a meeting of the board. On the motion of the chairman, Mr C. Lassen, at the monthly meeting of the Hawke's Bay Hospital Board yesterday, it was decided to send to the secretary, Mr E. T. Rees a letter exprossing sympathy with him in the recent loss of his wife. Members stood iu silence The vacancy caused by the appointment of Mr J. M. Park, deputy-Com-missioner of Taxes, to the Commissionership of the department, has been filled by the appointment of Mr E. S. Sinith, Crown Solieitor at Wellington. Mr Smith, who was born in Auckland in 1901i was uppointed CrowU Solicitor in Wellington las^t year. Mr G. E. Collins, LL.B., who has beon secretary of the New Zealand Antaretic Society since its inception, has resigned owing to pressure of other duties. At a recent meeting of the executive a motion wasi carried placing on record the fiue service which Mr Oollins had rendered to the society for many years. Mr D. R. Porter, A.I.A.N.Z., has been appointed to the secretaryship. of the society. Lieutenant Sir Standish O'Grady Roche> Bart, R.N., who has been aide-de-camp to the Governor-General, Lord Galway, since His Excellency's arrival. in the Dominion in April 1935, left Auckland last night en routo for England to rejoin the Royal Navy. Sir Standish will be succeeded as aide-de-eamp on Lord Galway 's staff by Lieutenant Sir Le H. Lombard-Hobson, R.N., who is due to arrive in the Dominion within the next few days. The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, will leave Wellington on December 21 for Auckland, where he expects to remain about seven or eight days. Mr Savage 's present arrangements provide for his return to Wellington about January 1 or January 2. He said yesterday that his visit to the north would not be an official visit in the ordinary cense. "I will always be glad to meet old friends and make new ones, " he said, "but so far as it is humanly possible I want to /forget about the affairs of State for a while." Viscount Coke and his daughter, the Hon. Mary Coke, are on their way to New Zealand, where they will be the guests of the Governor-General, Lord Galway, in Auckland, which they hope to reach on December 23. Tho Viscount 's grandfather was raised to the peerage in 1780 in recognitiou of his work for the agricultural industry in Great Britain. The family has been closel,y identified with the Scots Cuards. The present Eai'l of LSicester, Viscount Coke's father, served with the regiment in the Egyptian campaign.The Viscount acconipanied the Guards to France during the Great War, and now his son, the Hon. Thomas Coke, holds a commission in the regiment and is an equerry to II.M. the King.