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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21797, 1 June 1936, Page 10

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The Gazette announces the appointment of Messrs N. W. Laugesen, F. C. White, and F. M. Otten as rangers for the North Canterbury Acclimatisation District.

Mr J. R. Wink has been appointed deputyregistrar of the Supreme Court at Westport. Mr J. H. Enright, who left Westport on Friday for a trip to Britain via America, was entertained on the night before his departure at a farewell gathering, at which all local bodies and all business and sporting interests of the Buller district were represented. On behalf of his fellow townsmen, the Mayor, Mr J. Kilkenny, made Mr Enright a presentation and wished him an enjoyable trip. Mr W. Craddock, on behalf of the Kawatiri Rowing Club, of which Mr Enright has been president for 25 years, presented him with an initialled travelling rug. Mr Enright, who spent the week-end in Christchurch, will leave to-night for Wellington, and will sail on Monday by the Maunganui for San Francisco. He will be accompanied by his wife and daughter. The Rev. J. Ewen Simpson has concluded a four years’ ministry at the Colombo Street Baptist Church. With Mrs Simpson, he will be entertained by members of the church at a farewell function to-night, and he will leave shortly to take, charge of the Hanover Street Baptist Church, Dunedin. The Rev. J. K. Archer has been invited to conduct the ministry at Colombo street until a successor to Mr Simpson has been appointed. Professor J. Shelley returned to Christchurch by yesterday’s steamer express. Mr G. W. von Zedlitz was unanimously elected Professor Emeritus at the last meeting of the Victoria University College Council. He was for some years Professor of Modern Languages at Victoria College. , Members of Parliament Who arrived in Christchurch from Wellington on Saturday morning included Messrs S. G. Holland, H. S. S, Kyle, T. H. McCombs, E. J. Howard, 11. E. Herring, and J. Hargest The Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, leader of the Opposition, returned by the Wal.ine on Saturday morning Members of the Legislative Council who were passengers from Wellington by the Wahine on Saturday morning included the Hons. W. Hayward, J. A. McCullough, D. Buddo, T. F. Doyle, J. Goodall, and G. H. Hunter. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of Mr John Brown, agricultural inspector to the Canterbury Education Board, was carried by the Advisory Committee on Tree Planting in North Canterbury at its last meeting at Rangiora. The Rev. R. H. Traeger, who for the last five and a half years has been pastor of St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Montreal street, will leave on June 10 to become superintendent of the Koonibba mission station in South Australia. The mission station, which was founded in 1901, was originally 12,000 acres of virgin scrub land on the coast of South Australia, and it was leased to the church by the Government. To-day, on a co-operative basis, it is a highly productive farming area. Mr Traeger will preach his last sermon in Christchurch next Sunday, and his place may be taken by the Rev. C. A. Venz, of Nelson, president of the church in New Zealand, who has been asked to come to Christchurch.

Mr H. G. Lane, manager of the Mayfair Theatre, returned to Christchurch on Saturday after a business visit to Auckland. Mr H. F. Evans arrived by the steamer express on Saturday.

Mr L. C. M. Saunders. M.A., Mus. Bach., of the teaching staff of the Cathedral Grammar School, has received notice of his appointment to the staff of King’s College, Auckland, as director of music. Mr Saunders, who has been on the staff of the Grammar School for the last few years, and who was a pupil there, will leave to take up his new position in September. Superintendent E. Ching, who has been in charge of the Wanganui prison for the last 16 years, is to retire on superannuation, having completed 41 years of service. Mr Ching served first with the permanent New Zealand Artillery in Wellington, joining that force in 1895. He served later with the military forces at Lyttelton, and joined the prison service there in 1900. Two years later he was appointed to the prison staff at Mount Eden, Auckland. He remained there two years and was transferred to Wanganui on his first promotion in .1904. In 1909 Mr Ching was sent to New Plymouth as principal officer and remained there until 1913 when he was transferred to Wellington. In 1918 he was promoted to the position of deputy-superintendent of the Borstal Institute at Invercargill. From there he went to Wanganui in 1920.