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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21122, 24 March 1934, Page 12

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+ ! Mr A. M. Burns was a passenger ! by last night's steamer express on : a business visit to Wellington. Air \V. H. Cowper was a passenger from Wellington by yesterday ! morning's steamer. i The Rev. Fritz Peterson, a retired Swedish pastor, who arrived : : in Auckland by the Mariposa yesi terdav on a world tour, is visiting Ilawke's Bay. I Mr John Montgomery lelt last | night for Wellington, en route to Lake Taupo, where he will spend I a few davs. i Mr Justice Johnston will leave for Wellington by the inter-island steamer express to-night to attend the sittings of the Court of Appeal. Flying Ofticer Rex Kippenberger ! (Studholme) has been posted to the ■ Central Flying School at Wittering, I Lincolnshire, for three months, to j qualify a? Hying instructor. A letter of sympathy has been sent to the relatives of the late Mr James Young by the Canterbury Scottish Home Rule Association. Mr K. J. Eyre lias been elected I president of the Nelson Rugby I Union. Mr E. A. Edwards, the rej tiring president, was made a life ; member of the union. Mr J. F. Scott was reappointed i representative of the Hcathcote j County Council on the Christchurch ; Domains Board at a meeting of I the council last night. ! The Rev. D. f\ Mackenzie. Presii dencv senior chaplain of the Church of Scotland, Bombay Presidency, India, who is on furlough, arrived in New Zealand bv the Monowai after visiting the principal cities in Australia. He left yesterday for the ; Waitomo Caves and an extensive i tour of both islands of New Zealand. 1 before leaving for Scotland from j Wellington on April 13. The ckath of Dr. J. W. Mc- | Breartv, the representative of the i Canterbury Education Board on the ! board of governors of the Grey- ; mouth Technical High School, was referred to at the meeting of the board yesterday, and a vote of con- ' dolence was passed with Dr. Mc- ; Brearty's family. Mr A. A. Adams, iof Greymouth. was appointed tu i take the place of Dr. Mcßrearty en i the board of governors. ; At the meeting of the Canterbury Rugby League Referees' Association. the president, before commencing the business, made reference to the death of Mr E. Healey, formerly chairman of the centre. Mr Healey, he said, had bcqn highiy esteemed for his sterling character. He had been one of the most capable administrators that the game had known. Members stood as a tribute to his memory.

i The Mayor of Christchurch (Mr D. G. Sullivan. M.P.i is expected to arrive in Christchurch tc-rr.:r-row. Bishop Kempthorne. of Polynesia arrived in Auckland by the Mariposa yesterday on his way to attend the General Synod a: ' Sympathy with the relatives o~ Mr James Young, for many years curator of the Christchurch Botanic G*r- | dens, was expressed at a meeting I of the Heathcote County Council la?*, j night.