PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr D. G. O’Toole has been elected president of the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce. Messrs L. Gregory (Taihape) and R. E. Goodwin (Palmerston North) are staying at the Empire Hotel, Masterton. Mr T. B. Fox, of Hastings, and formerly of Masterton, who underwent a serious operation earlier this week, is progressing as well as can be expected. Messrs J. Bonland, Cummings, J. Winchcombe (Wellington), R. Blinkhome (Palmerston North) and E. Neighbours (Upper Hutt) are visitors to Masterton and are staying at the Prince of Wales Hotel. Mr P. J. Twomey, honorary secretary of the Makogai Lepers’ (N.Z.) Trust Board, will arrive at Wellington on Saturday morning by the steamer express from the South Island. He is engaged on a short broadcast and lecturing tour. The Prime Minister, Mr Savage, •visited Parliament House yesterday morning and spent close on two hours with his Ministerial colleagues. He was given a hearty welcome and was congratulated on the restoration of his health. Mr Savage said he was feeling very well. . It is the intention of Mr Savage to resume on a necessarily modified scale an active interest in the affairs of his office, and to attend at his office in the mornings as often as circumstances permit. Formal approval of the appointment of Mr H. T. Ratana, M.P., as president of the Ratana Church and movement in succession to his late father, Mr T. W. Ratana, is at present being obtained from its adherents throughout the Dominion. Mr Ratanai is regarded as the logical successor to the presidency, and he has already been proclaimed as such by the leading executive men in the movement, Mr E. T. Tirikatene, M.P.. Mr P. K. Paikea, M.P., and Mr J. Ormond, as well as by the Maori people living in the Ratana pa and members who were present at the tangi. However, in order to obtain the full acquiescence of the adherents of the movement throughout New Zealand a memorial is being circulated for their signature.