PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20742, 28 February 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL

The Minister of Public Works. Hon. R. Semple, arrived in Hamilton last evening and to-day visited the Raglan electorate with the Minister of Agriculture, Hon. W. Lee Martin. Both Ministers will return to Wellington this evening. Mr I. Hunter, of Glen Afton, was a guest at the Auckland Rotary Club's weekly luncheon yesterday. Mr E. M. Higgins, tutor-organiser to the W.E.A in the Auckland district, was in Hamilton last evening. Mr N. Booth .is In Hamilton making arrangements for the appearance of the Young Australia Band next month. Mr F. S. Dyson, of Auckland, district engineer of the Public Works Department, is at the Hamilton Hotel. Adjutant A. Chandler, who for the last three years has been assistantdivisional commander of the Christchurch division of the Salvation Army, has been transferred to Auckland. Mr I. J. Goldstine, retiring chairman of the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council, was unanimously re-elected at the annual meeting yesterday. Mr A. C. Burgess, secretary of the Waikato Hospital Board, visited Auckland yesterday for a Conciliation Council meeting regarding hospital workers’ conditions. Messrs H. MacDonald, W. F. Fry ''Wellington). C. N. Heather, V. Viscoe. H. D. Mon (Auckland), L. Marshall (Whangarei) and W. H. Gainsford (Dannevirke) are at the Hamilton Hotel.

Messrs A. M. Bisley 'president), R. B. Seabrook, S. J. Sheaf, A. L. Fow, J. B. Pomeroy, J. H. Ledgerwood and Dr. H. B. Turbott, members of the Hamilton Rotary Club, have left to attend the Rotary Club’s conference at Napier.

Mr D. R. A. Eden general manager of the New Zealand Reparation Estates, Western Samoa, who has been visiting New Zealand and Australia, will leave Auckland to-day by the Matua for Apia.

Mr I. Elsden, manager of the Regent Theatre, has left Hamilton to take up the position of touring manager for Nicola the magician for several weeks. During his absence Mr A. Latham will have charge of the Regent Theatre and the Theatre Royal.

Mr K. V. Halliday, who has been on the staff of the money order savings bank in Hamilton for the past 14 years, has been transferred to the staff of the main office in Wellington. Mr Halliday will leave for the south to-morrow evening.

Archbishop O’Shea, Metropolitan of New Zealand, who has been visitingRome and Ireland, is not now expected to return to the Dominion before the end of May. He was to have left for the United States about the middle of next month, but it is now assumed in Wellington that he will have returned to Rome to remain until after the coronation of the new Pope.