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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21582, 19 September 1935, Page 10

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♦- — . Mr C. H. Hewlett returned to Christchurch from the north yesterday morning. Mr George Rhodes, accountant to the NapierWellington Transport Company, has accepted a position with the Auckland Electric Power Board. Mr R. A. Gaffaney, of Gloucester street, who has been away for eight mbnths on a tour of the United Kingdom, the Continent, and South Africa, has returned to Christchurch. Mr John Fraser, general manager of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board, has returned to Wellington by the Mataroa from London, where he attended the meat discussions.—Press Association. Dr. K. G. Mclndoe, plant pathologist to the Firestone Plantations, Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa, is making -a holiday tour of New Zealand. Mr John B. White, M.Sc, 8.E., A.M.1.C.E., late of the Public Works Department, Waitaki, has been granted a commission in the New Zealand Staff Corps, Defence Department. Mr A. H. Bridge, city surveyor, has been appointed the delegate of the Christchurch branch of the Town Planning Institute of New Zealand to the Dominion Council. The Rev. Father James Hendren, S.M., of St. Mary's of the Angels, Wellington, who has been relieving the Rev. Father J. Cullen, S.M., of Nelson, will return to Wellington to-morrow evening. Mr A. Fryer, a medical missionary from the Kwang-si province of China, arrived in Christchurch yesterday. He is visiting New Zealand on his way to England on leave, and will stay here for about three weeks. Mr P. L„ Fenton, a banker from Kenya Colony, is visiting Wellington. He will leave for Panama and Jamaica by the Rangitane (from Auckland) on September 27. At Jamaica it is his intention to tranship to a steamer for South American ports. Mr T. C. A. Hislop, leader of the Democrat political party, arrived in Christchurch from the south yesterday, and left by the Maori last evening for Wellington. Mr C. H. Wing, South Island organiser for the party, also returned to Christchurch. He will go back to Dunedin on Saturday. A motion of sympathy with Mr C. E. Cross in his illness was passed at a meeting of the Christchurch branch of the Town Planning Institute of New Zealand last night. It was stated that Mr Cross, who had been a member of the branch since its inception, had been forced through ill-health to resign from all his public offices except his seat on the Waimairi County Council. Major John Chicken, of Napier, a Maori War veteran, has just celebrated his eighty-eighth birthday. Following the Maori War he became associated with volunteering, with which he was connected for something like half a century, being for a number of years major in command of the Hawke's Bay Infantry Regiment. On his retirement some years ago the rank of honorary major of the New Zealand Forces was bestowed upon him. „_„^_ - .„