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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21512, 29 June 1935, Page 14

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4> Mr J. K. Robertson, of Perth, has accepted a call to the Church of Christ, Waimea street, Nelson. Mr J. B Pargeter, who concluded a period yesterday as relieving teacher at the West Christchurch School, will leave on a visit to Great Britain and ihe Continent. Mr J. M. Tisher, of Robart, who represents the Tasmanian Government at Dunedin, spent yesterday in Christchurch. He will leave for the south this morning. The Mayor, Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P., has gone to Hanmer Springs for the week-end. He intends to return in time for the meeting of the Christchurch City Council on Moilday evening. Flying Officer C. Broughton, Royal Air Force, son £>f ,Mr and Mrs C. Broughton, Fendalton, will arrive in Christchurch on Tuesday. He is on leave from Risalpur, India, where he has been stationed for the last two years. 9 Mr W. W. Scarff, chairman of the Heathcote County Council, was appointed to represent the council at the biennial conference of the New Zealand Counties' Association in Wellington on August 28, 29, and 30. Mr W, W. Mackersy, manager of the Milburn Lime afjd Cement Company, Limited, was appointed ger» eral manager of the company, jn place of the late Mr J. H. Stewart at a meeting of the directors yesterday afternoon.—Press Association. Erigadier W. G. Middlemiss, who has been manager of the Christchurch People's Palace for the last three and a half years, has been notified of his transfer to Dunedin as divisional commander. The brigadier will be succeeded by Major T. Buttimojre, of Wellington, who will arrive on Thursday, July 4. Mr David M. Tombs, M.Sc., of Wellington, is now in the famous Hertz laboratory, Berlin. He is an old boy of Nelson College and won a Blair Fellowship from London University, giving him a year's research study abroad. He chose to go to Germany and had six months in Munich studying shortwave wireless before joining the staff of the Hertz Institute. Mr John Anderson, North Canterbury representative for Wright, Stephenson and Company, Ltd., will leave Christchurch to-day to connect with the s.s. Westmoreland at Auckland on July 3 on a trip to South America. It is his intention to spend several months there visiting all the large sheep breeders, with the object of stimulating the interests of these breeders in New Zealand stud sheep. During his absence Mr W. C. Dalley, the wellknown All Black, will take over his territory.