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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21991, 15 January 1937, Page 10

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The Hon. W. H. Mclntyre, M.L.C., was among the passengers from Wellington by the steamer express yesterday morning. Mr D. McDougall, M.P., also returned to the south yesterday. Sir Charles Campbell, of England, arrived in Christchurch yesterday on a visit to New Zealand. Messrs C. W. Rattray, J. M. A. Ilott, W. G. Brass, and A. L. Macfarlane were among the passengers from Wellington by the Rangatira yesterday morning. The inspecting engineer of the New Zealand Railways. Mr H. C. Lusty, was among the arrivals by the Rangatira yesterday. Members of the Lancaster Park Board of Control stood in silence at their meeting last night in memory of Mr W. H. Winsor, who was for many years a member of the board, and chairman for a term. The meeting later adjourned for a few minutes as a further mark of respect. The Minister for Education and Health, the Hon. P. Fraser, will visit Blenheim on Saturday, January 23. when he will deliver an address, entitled "The Immortal Memory," at the annual Robert Burns night to be held that evening by the Marlborough Scottish Society. The Minister will arrive by air from Wellington during the afternoon and will leave during the week-end for Nelson, where he will deliver an address at a similar function to be held by the Nelson Scottish Society. He will return to Wellington on Tuesday, January 26, travelling by air from Nelson. Mr W. Russell-Wood, of Dunedin, after some weeks in Southland, is spending a holiday in Christchurch. Mr E. J. Dash, president of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, has been nominated by the society for the position of workers' representative at the twenty-third session of the International Labour Conference at Geneva on June 3 next. Mr Dash has been a member of the society for 33 years, 12 years as an executive councillor and five as president. Pie was for 24 years a member of the Railway Appeal Board and for the last 14 years has sat on the Railways Superannuation Board. Sympathy with the relatives of Mr P. R. Harman, a member of the executive of the South Island Motor Union, was expressed by the executive of the body last night, the chairman, Mr W. R. Carey, saying that Mr Harman's death had created a gap which it would be difficult to fill. Messages of sympathy were received from the North Island Motor Union and the Automobile Association, Auckland.