PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21187, 9 August 1940, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Hon. H. G. R. Mason, Minister of Education, will be in Hamilton this evening before proceeding to Raglan, where he will open the new secondary school tomorrow.

The Hon. W. Lee-Martin, Minister of Agriculture, who is in the Waikato, will travel to Raglan to attend the opening of the new secondary school there tomorrow.

Second-Lieutenant V. R. Harcourt, of Wellington, is in Hamilton and is at the Hamilton Hotel.

Messrs J. A. Scouler (Dunedin), and A. L. Jaffrey (Auckland), are at the Hamilton Hotel.

Mr Haddon Smith, secretary of the Midhurst Dairy Company, has been visiting Hamilton and has returned to Taranaki.

Pilot-Officer A. G. Shaw, R.N.Z.A.F., Hamilton, who has been home on extended leave, went south last evening.

Captain F. E. T. Hewlett, retired list, is re-employed in the temporary rank of wing-commander, general duties branch, Royal New Zealand Air Force, according to a Gazette notice.

Dr. J. Frederick Staton, conductor of the Sheffield Choir, England, Will arrive shortly from the United States. Dr. Staton is to act as one of the adjudicators at the Wellington competitions.

Mr H. C. Foster, postmaster at Tuakau, will retire at the end of September after 40 years’ service with the Post and Telegraph Department. He has the record of never missing a day’s service with the exception of the period of four years when he was at the Great War.

The Rev. Dr. Alexander Hodge, minister of the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle, will begin a 10-day mission at the Hamilton Baptist Church on Sunday as part of the evangelistic campaign of the Baptist Union of New Zealand. He will conduct a similar mission in Greymouth next month.