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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1938, Page 6

PERSONAL

The Hon W. Nash, Minister of Finance, who visited Hawera and Palmerston North yesterday, will return tc Wellington today. Mr Pat Southey, Queen Street, whc has been a patient at the Masterton Hospital, was able to leave that institution yesterday. The Rev. D. N. Pryor, formerly ol Leeston, has accepted an assistantship to the Rev G. M. Nicol, of Sheffield, England. His work will be centred in Chesterfield.

The Rev J. Lawson Robinson, of Si Andrew’s Church, Christchurch, has been nominated by the Oamaru Presbytery as Moderator of the General Assembly to be held in the Centennial year.

The Hon Adam Hamilton, Leader ol the Opposition, who arrived J at Wellington yesterday from the south and addressed a meeting at St Francis Hall, Hill Street, last night, will spend today in Wellington. He will leave by the Limited express this evening for Frankton on the last stage of his election tour of the Dominion.

The Rt Hon M. J. Savage, Prime Minister, who will address a meeting at Hamilton tonight, will join the Limited express later at Frankton for the south. He will leave the train at Palmerston North on Friday morning and address a meeting in The Square at noon, travelling to Wellington that afternoon by motor-car. A welcome will be extended to him in the grounds of Parliament Buildings on his arrival at, 5.15 p.m. The leader of the National Party, the Hon. Adam Hamilton, will leave Wellington by the Limited express this evening for Frankton Junction. Tomorrow at 11 a.m. he will speak in the Theatre Royal, Hamilton. On the same evening he will deliver a 15-minute broadcast address at 8 o’clock from IYA, Auckland, his speech being relayed over all YA stations. Immediately following the broadcast Mr Hamilton will deliver a public address in the Auckland Town Hall. On Saturday morning he will return to Wellington by air. Next Election in Britain.

Interviewed in Auckland yesterday, Lord Lothian remarked that at the next election in Britain, in 1940, if war could be avoided, the issue would be similar to that in New Zealand today. Socialism and individualism had been overshadowed in the past three or four years by the threat of war, which had caused electorates to be more concerned with the international situation than anything more domestic. Lord Lothian visited Auckland University College yesterday.

Employment and Rearmament. A fairly general belief that rearmament in Britain would slacken appreciably after 12 months, and that unemployment would then be aggravated, was found by Mr Clifford A. Deyell, general manager of Watsons, Jewellers, L.d., who returned to Christchurch recently after spending six months abroad. Mr Deyell said that he spoke to the directors of several firms, particularly in the watch-making business, and he was told that there was at present great difficulty in obtaining labour. They expected, however, that with the slackening of rearmament there would be a slight depression with an increase in the numoers of unemployed.

Historical Film of New Zealand. A film of 5000 ft, to be produced by the Government Publicity Department and directed by Mr H. M. Bridgeman, dealing with 100 years of the life of New Zealand, will shortly be commenced, and is expected to be completed in 10 months. It will be released throughout the British Empire and, beginning with the efforts of Wakefield’s earlier schemes in London will end with the present-day condition of the country. A good deal of expensive modern equipment has recently come to hand for this film, which will be supervised by a committee of departmental and historical experts. Early ships en voyage, landings in New Zealand, the French settlement at Akaroa, the Maori wars, the gold rushes, early farming and bush clearing, primitive transport of the earlier days by sledge and "catamaran,” and the hardships of the early settlers will lead up to the present situation. Most parts of New Zealand will figure in the production. Some localities will see more activity than others, chiefly because of the presence m one spot of many of the "properties” needed, and the facility that exists for grouping natives for big historical scenes. Already much research has been done. There is such a wealth of subject that those entrusted with the cutting of the film will have an onerous duty.

Arrangements have been made for Mr A. A. Boyd, chairman and managing director of Mt Morgan, Limited, to visit Masterton to meet all local shareholders. In view of the magnitude of the operations now being conducted at the mine and the proposal to alter the directorate, all shareholders are recommended to attend the meeting to hear Mr Boyd. As advertised in today's paper, the meeting will take place tomorrow at 11.15 a.m. at the Midland Hotel, Masterton.