PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21280, 26 November 1940, Page 4

PERSONAL

Sir Clutha Mackenzie was a passenger by the Monterey for San Francisco last night.

Messrs E. Foster (Auckland) and A. Hawby (Wellington) are. at the Hamilton Hotel.

Mr F. Cameron, manager of the Hawera branch of Newton King, Ltd., has been appointed secretary and manager of Freeman R. Jackson, Ltd., Wanganui.

Mr C. G. E. Harker, the new National Party member for Waipawa, was formally welcomed at yesterday’s caucus of the National Party by the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon. A. Hamilton.

Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Will, who has returned to New Zealand after being in charge of a field ambulance in Egypt, was in Hamilton at the week-end. He returned to New Zealand with a number of troops who have been invalided home.

Sir Francis Frazer, chairman of the Board of Inquiry into the derailment of the limited express near Mercer on October 28, and Messrs G. Bertinshaw, chief engineer of the Railway Department, and P. R. Angus, locomotive superintendent, arrived in Auckland yesterday for the sittings of the Board of Inquiry, which commenced this morning.

Sir Robert Garran, of Canberra, passed through Auckland yesterday in the Monterey on his way to undertake a goodwill tour of the leading Rotary clubs in the United States. As an ex-president of the Canberra Rotary Club, Sir Robert represented Rotary International at the New Zealand district conference at Palmerston North last March.