PERSONAL.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 421, 30 April 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL.

( Hon. W. E. Barnard, Speaker of tho I House of Representatives, left Well- | ington for Auckland by the Limited i express last night. I | Hon. W. Lee Martin, Minister of ; Agriculture, will leave Wellington for | Huntly by tile Limited express tonight. He will return to Wellington on Monday. Mrs D. Steven, Broadway North, left this morning by car to spend a few days with friends in the Mangatawhiri Valley. Rotorua will be visited on the way back. i Mrs F. Bowler left this morning I for Christchurch to attend the capping festivities of Canterbury Col- ; lege. i Sir Donald McGavin. Wellington, 1 has been reappointed a member of the i medical council. 1 Rear-Admiral E. D." Sydenham (re« . tired), and Mrs Sydenham, London, ; who are spending a holiday in New Zealand, left for the South Island. i ) Mr L. J. Schmitt, general manager ' of the Department of Industries and Commerce, Tourist and Publicity, ■ who has been visiting the Soiuh ! Island, returned to Wellington yes- ' terday. ! The presentation of a pair of fieldglasses was made at Wellington yesterday to the retiring Government ( Printer, Mr G. IT. Loney, by the staff t of the Government Printing and Stationery Department. ! A London cable message announces the death of Captain F. E. Guest, M.P., i aged 62. He was formerly private ; secretary to Mr Winston Churchill, ; and Secretary of State for Air in 1921i 22. i i A large gathering of shipping men ' assembled at Wellington yesterday ( afternoon to bid farewell to Mr Fred : Prince, assistant to the Marine Sup- ■ erintendent of the Shaw.Savill and • Albion Company. Ltd., who retires to- • day on superannuation after 45 years’ < active association with shipping in ; Wellington, of which 30 years have ; been in the service of that company. ! At the Stratford Hospital this ' morning, a presentation of a travel- ; ling was made to Dr and Mrs W. | Brown from the Matron, Mrs J. Hunt, I and the nursing staff. i I Sergeant T. Brenchley, who has ! been in charge of the Stratford police i station during the absence of Serj geant C. M. Annis, on annual leave, j returned to New Plymouth to-day. I j An announcement of the appointi ment of Lieutenant-Colonel R. Miles, | D. 5.0.. M.C., R.N.Z.A., to the ; command of the Northern Military Command, with the. temporary rank of colonel, has been made by the Minister of Defence, Hon. F. Jones. He succeeds Major-General J. E. Dub gan, D. 5.0., A.D.C., who was recently appointed General Officer Commandj ing the New Zealand Military Forces, j Dr W. M. Thomson, of Hawera, was • presented by Superintend out E, Brocklebank, of Stratford, with a 25 years’ gold medal star at the annual conference of the Taranaki District Fire Brigades’ Association at Hawera on Wednesday night in recognition of service as brigade surgeon. The brigade performed such valuable and efficient work that his part in its > activities was of a rather humble j nature, said Dr Thomson. i j Mr R. H. Nesbit, who has acted as | Australian Trade Commissioner in j New Zealand for the past three years, | has been congratulated bv the Well- | ington Rotary Club, of which he is a > member, on his appointment to the I chairmanshin of the Australian Milk ! Hoard. Mr Nesbitt, will arrive from I Sydney by. the Awatea on Monday | next. • The Awatea arrived at Sydney thfp morning from Wellington.