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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 128, 1 June 1934, Page 6

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Mr. A. P. Harper, a vice-president of the New Zealand Alpine Club, was recently elected a life member of the club in recognition of his long service to the organisation. He has been actively interested in the club since its formation in 1891. Guests registered at Spriggens’ Hotel include :— Messrs. Geo. C. Simmiss, N. L. Phillips (Wellington); Mr. A. Turner (Palmerston North); Messrs. N. E. Westwood, G. Briley, Mr. and Mrs. J. Vair (Auckland); Mr. W. Bourke (Christchurch). Mr. W. J. Polson, M.P., of Stratford, Dom[illegible] president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, officially opened the Provincial Conference of the Southland branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at Invercargill at the beginning of the week. Guests registered at Foster’s Hotel include: Mrs. A. H. Marshall, Mrs. D. R. Godfrey (Marton); Captain A. J. Naylor, Mr. O. Leslie Wall, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Fleming, Mr. E. Rabbidge (Wellington); Mr. J. Webster (Sydney); Mr. E. F. L. Kempthorne, Mr. J. N. Tinker (Ruapirau). Mr. Ian Miller, New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, leaves Auckland to-morrow for the United States, en route to Oxford University. In the United States he will join Mr. A. F. T. Chorlton, of Wellington, who left by the Niagara earlier in the week, and the two will embark on a debating tour. Colonel W. H. Cunningham, D.S.O., V.D., Commanding Officer of the 2nd New Zealand Infantry Brigade, will be taking the chair at the annual re-union of the 11th Taranaki Regiment on June 26. Returned soldiers will remember him as the commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion Wellington Regiment, which unit he commanded from its inception to practically the end of the Great War. Mr. N. Hayward, manager of the Majestic Theatre, Wanganui, has received notice of his transfer to Auckland as manager of the St. James’ Theatre, the leading theatre under the Fuller-Hayward management in the Dominion. Mr. Hayward has been for nearly five years in Wanganui, during which period he has raised the Majestic Theatre to a high standard, while he has also played no small part in many civic movements. Mr. Charles Ashford, of the Majestic Theatre, Wellington, is to arrive next Wednesday to fill the vacancy.