PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1938, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Because of’the prevalence of bronchial catarrh in Western Samoa and Niue, and an epidemic of rubella (German measles) in Rarotonga and several other islands of the Cook Group, the Governor-General’s visit to the Pacific Islands, which was to have begun early last month, has now been postponed until next year. Mr H. Zeinert, a well known settler of Kohinui, ,is visiting Napier and other parts of Hawke’s Bay.

Mr D. C. E. Webster, late of Dunedin, has taken up duty in Masterton as Registrar of the Supreme Court and Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court.

Professor A. H. Tocker and Mr C. P. Agar, members of the advisory committee set up by the Government to consider the guaranteed price for dairy produce to be paid in the new season, arrived at Wellington by the steamer express yesterday from Christchurch. Mr G. D. Kearney, manager of the Woodville Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., for the past four years, who previously managed the North Tiraumea factory for 11 years, and who has been appointed manager of the Greytown Dairy Company, will leave Woodville this week to assume his new position. Mr H. T. Thomas, immediate pastpresident of the Auckland Rotary Club, is to leave Auckland by the Mariposa on Friday for Australia, where he will join the Nieuw Holland for a holiday visit to Java and Singapore. Mrs Thomas is to accompany him, and they will be away from Auckland for about three months.

Mr, John Bloxam has resigned .his position on the Pahiatua staff of the Bank of New Zealand where he has been stationed for the past two years. Mr Bloxam has been appointed to the Royal Air Force. He will leave for England on September 22 per the Rangitane from Auckland. Mr Bloxam it will be remembered won the Elkington Aviation scholarship and got his wings with the Wairarapa Aero Club last year. ■ /

The following officers of the Woodville Horticultural Society have been elected for the ensuing year:—Patron, Mr T. F. Fountaine; president, Mr S. Turnbull; vice-presidents, Mesdames James, H. Giles, Messrs H. Mills, J. Tanner, A. Eades; committee, Messrs A. H. Hustwick, L. Walker, H. Hammond, R .Hurdle, T. Jamieson, B. Hutchings, A. Eades, Mesdames G. L. Hartridge, H. Hill, B. Hutchings, H. Mills, Warnock, Misses J. Beattie, Kirkpatrick, Peebles; auditor, Mr L. J. Whittington; secretary, Mr P. Anslow,