PERSONAL.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 408, 15 April 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL.

• Hon. F. Langstone, Minister ot I Lands, return! <1 ito Wellington tyesi terday from Taumarunui. j Hon. R. Semple, Minister of PubI lie Works, will leave Wellington by | ; aeroplane 'this morning for Blenheim. I I going ih uce by car to Kaikoura, | I where he will inspect the construe- I i tion work on the South Island Main I | Trunk railway extension. I ■ t Sir Alexander Herdman,’ and Lady j I Herdman, of Auckland, who ar. j l visiting England, will say in Lon-| j don for some time. Later they will | 'tour Britain.; I ! Sir John Lamb, K.C 8., LL.D., of j i Scotland, arrived in Wellington yes | | terday from the soui'h. He is mak- ! j ing a tour of New Z aland before con- 1 tinuin.g his tour of the world. Lieutenant-Colonel A. A. Corrigan. ! T.D.. who has been president I of the Wellington branch of the Old j ■ Contemn ibl s’ Association for Ithe j I pas', two years, has announced his j I relinquishment of the presidency. i I Sir Cluiha Mackenzie has taken a | ! house is Regen ’s Park, London, for | ; a few mon.list Since arriving in i i London ho has visited a number of ! schools and workshops for the blind | to learn Ithe lajtett developments in ■ bl : nd welfan . work, and later, ih com- , panv wi h Sir lan Fraser, chairman of St. Dunst.n’s, he v, 11l attend a numbcl- oi) ibhmfied soldier reunions in the Midlands 'and the North. > SELFRIDGE’S STORES. I .1" is announced that arrangements | have ben completed whereby I Messrs. Selfridges (N.Z.), Ltd., have I secured the property knovn as (he _! Burling’ on Arcade, in Cuba Sire t, Wellington. 1 is the intention of the company to make this itheir major ore in Wellington, and it will be the situ./ ion of the head office of the company in New Zealand. i PHEASANTS FOR LIBERATION. j Of interest to game sportsmen was j a re-urn givt n a, Masterton by Ithe | Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon, W. j E. Parry, of what is likely to be Mie • production of pheasants for liberation i ' through (he Dominion during ‘this ! yeur. As the resul; of communica- J ‘ions mads to the acclimatisation so- i cieties, Mr. Parry, it had been I ascertained that at least 6259 phea- • sants would, over a wide 'area ot boi h i islands, h given wing, as against j 5126 birds las-t year.