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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19887, 16 May 1936, Page 6

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Mr F. E. S. Long has been appointed an honorary child welfare officer at Hamilton. Rev. G. R. Barnett, formerly Dean of Hamilton, was a recent caller at New Zealand House in London. The Earl of Willingdon has been appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in succession 'to the late Marquess of Reading, says a cable message from London. Mr F. V. Blair, of St. Petersburg, Florida, a prominent figure in United States aviation, was among the passengers for Sydney on the Monterey, which called at Auckland yesterday. Mr B. E. Mills, assistant manager of the Atlantic Union Oil Company, Limited, in New Zealand, returned by the Monterey yesterday from a visit to the United States. Baron J. von Stechow, of Berlin, passed through Auckland on the Monterey yesterday, on his way to Sydney, where he has been appointed viceGonsul for Germany. Mr T. F. Haughey, of Hamilton, was heartily congratulated at the graduation ceremony of the Auckland University College last evening, for taking first place for the year in architecture. Mr F. L. Combs, of Wellington Training College, has been elected president of the New Zealand Educational Institute. He was president in 1927-28. Guests at the Hamilton Hotel include L. Ambery (Wellington), T. Henry Messrs N. E. Hewitt, R. G. Murray, E. Milford, H. M. Johnson, G. Daniels, J tWhaugarei), I-I. M. Henry, c.' R. Morley and C. Dawson (Auckland). Cabled advice has been received by Mr G. W. Lidgett, inspector of machinery, surveyor of ships, Hamilton, of his appointment as, engineer and ship surveyor to Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, Wellington. Mr Lidgett will succeed Mr David Iv. Blair, who is to retire in June. Mr F. B. Stephens, a former lecturer in economics at Auckland University College, and tutor-organiser of the Workers’ Educational Association at Hamilton, who for the past two and a-half years has been engaged in research work abroad under a Rockefeller Fellowship, returned by the Monterey yesterday. The Bishop of Aotearoa, the Rt. Rev. F. A. Bennett, who was to have left yesterday for Australia, having accepted an invitation to he present at a church centenary function, is unable to leave, owing to indisposition. The Bishop has recovered from a minor operation, hut is still under medical care. The Rev. A. T. Thompson. Secretary to the Commonwealth Council of the British and Foreign Bible Society, will leave Melbourne by the Wanganella on June. 10, for New Zealand, where he will spend a month before going to Suva to explore the prospects of launching colportage by 1 lie Bible Society In the Fiji Islands. Mr Thompson was minister of St. Andrew’s, Christchurch., during the war years.