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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21718, 27 February 1936, Page 10

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The. Minister for Labour and for Employment, the Hon. H. t. Armstrong, will arrive in Chnsfchu'rch to-day on an official visit. He will return north to-morrow night. Mr C. R. Hamilton, chief engineer of Lichfield Shirts, Ltd., will leave on Saturday on a business trip to Sydney and Melbourne. A Press Association message from Wellington says that the Rt. Hon. Sir Francis Beil is at present seriously ill. H. F. Ayson, Resident Commissioner of the Cook Islands, arrived in Christchurch from the North Island by the steamer express yesterday morning. Mr R. M. Brasted, national secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association, passed through Christchurch yesterday on his way to Timaru. The Canterbury Sheep Owners’ Union has forwarded to the Registrar of Industrial Unions the nomination of Mr A. C. Mitchell, president of tbe New Zealand Employers’ Federation, as employers’ Representative to attend the annual conference of the. International Labour Office at Geneva.

Mr F. E. S. Long, at present general secretary of the Timaru branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association, has been appointed general secretary of the Hamilton branch. Colonel S. C. P. Nicholls, D.S.O, N.Z.S.C., Officer Commanding the Southern Command, left Christchurch yesterday for Sutton, Central Otago, to inspect the annual camp of the Otago University Medical Company. The North Canterbury Hospital Boai’d yesterday granted leave of absence to Dr.. P. Clennell Fenwick, officer in charge of the radium and deep therapy department at the Christchurch Public Hospital, to attend a cancer conference in Melbourne in May. Mr H. Kitson, chairman of the Stock Exchanges’ Association of New Zealand, will leave on Monday for Melbourne, where he will represent the New Zealand exchanges at the annual conference of Australian exchanges on March ,16. He will return at the end of the month. Mr R. H. Aston, director of Lichfield Shirts, Ltd., accompanied by Mrs Aston, will leave on Saturday to connect with the Orion, which will leave Sydney on March 11. The tour will include Great Britain, Europe, America, and Canada. The North Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday appointed the following doctors to the resident medical staff of the hospital:—Drs. D. A. Arnott, W. E. Burns, E. J. Burley, G. T. Dudley, PI. T. N. Knight, T. McCullough, W. M. Platts, and R. A. Wilson,