PERSONAL.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 441, 24 May 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Miss G. Vinsen, of New Plymouth, is visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs A. V. Vinsen. Mr J. N. Whelan, orchard inspector for the Department of Agriculture is paying an pfflcial visit, to Taranaki to inspect nurseries. Archdeacon G. H. Gavin, of New Plymouth, left Wellington Saturday night for Christchurch to conduct a ■ retreat for Christchurch clergy. He • is to return to New Plymouth next I Saturday. Mr R. H. Nesbitt, formerly Austral- I ian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand and now chairman of the New ' South Wales Milk Board, returned to Wellington from Auckland on Saturday. He is to sail by the Maunganui next Saturday for Sydney. Hon. W. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs, returned to Wellington from Hawke’s Bay at the week-end. Hon. A. Hamilton, Leader of the Opposition, who spent the week-end at Nelson and Blenheim, is expected to return to Wellington to-morrow. Mr M. H. Oram, of Palmerston North, has been elected deputy-chair-man of the Wanganui Education Board. GEORGE V MEMORIAL FUND. Further donations to the George V. Memorial fund have been received as follows:—Previously acknowledged £75 Bs, Stratford Racing Club £2O. [ Stratford Borough Council £2O, I Anonymous £5, Anglican and Presi byterian Coronation Service £2, Independent Order of Rechabites £1 Is, I Mrs J. R. Wall ss. Total, £123 14s. 'cook strait beacons. i Equipment for three radio beacons •in Cook Strait the first of which is to be at Baring Head, is being shipped from England this month in the Port Bowen. The other radio direc- ; tion-finding installations will be at Cape Campbell and Stephens Island. j Steps are also to be taken to convert | the light-houses at these two places • from oil to electricity.