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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 83, 31 December 1937, Page 4

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Lady Wavertree, who has been staying at Wairakei, left Napier by mail train this morning for Wellington. The Rt. Rev. F. A. Bennett, Bishop of Aotearoa, left for the South Island from Wellington last night by the steamer express. The Japanese Conslul-General at Singapore, Mr Kiichi Gunji, has been ^ notified that he is to open the first Consulate-General of Japan at Wellington early in the new year. Mr A. G. F. Ross has been appointed headmaster of St. Matthew's Victory Memorial College, the Church of England primary day school for the diocese of Christchurch. The Hon. J. K. Archer, M.L.C., of Christchurch, is spending a holiday in the North Island. He proposes to visit North Auckland at the conclusion of a visit to Dannevirke. The Hon. T. W. White, Commonwealth Minister of Trade and Customs, returned to Wellington from the South Island yesterday and left Wellington to-day for Auckland, via the East Coast. Mr. N. Dyer, of the Justice Department, formerly stationed at Palmerston North, and who is on transfer to Whangarei, is spending a week's holiday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dyer, of Wellwood street, Hastings. Miss B. Sleddon, a clever New Zealand dietieian, has arrived in New Zealand to spend nine months before returning to America to take up a position in the food clinic of the Massachusetts General Hospital at Boston. At an ordinary meeting of the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the following New Zealanders were awarded the Diplomas of Fellowship of the College: — Dr. G. A. Myers, M.B., New Zealand, Otago and St. Thomas'; Dr. w'. N. Searle, M.B., New Zealand, Otago and Guy's; and Dr. H. A. O. Small, M-B., New Zealand, Otago and St. Thomas'. Mr J. R. Hobbs, of Hastings, will sliortly be leaying for Wellington where he has accepted an appointment with the Alliance Finance Corporation. Mr Hobbs is one of Hawke's Bay's outstanding. golfers, and apart from annexing the Napier Golf Club's championship on four occasions, ne has participated with distinction at the New Zealand and various provincial championship tournaments. In addition he has represented Hawke's Bay at cricket, and has been a leading player in Hastings and Napier for some years past.