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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22108, 2 June 1937, Page 8

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The Postmaster-General, the Hon. F. Jones, will leave Wellington for the south to-night by the steamer express, and will be absent about a week. Mr P. J. O'Regan. was sworn in by the Chief Justice (the Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Myers) as a Judge of the Supreme Court yesterday, and was thus enabled to receive his appointment as acting-president of the Arbitration Court. Mr T. Newburgh was a passenger by air to Christchurch from Palmerston North yesterday morning. Mr L. J. Schmitt, general manager of the Tourist and Publicity Department, was an arrival by the steamer express from the North Is"and yesterday morning. Mr G. T. Wilson, of the Railway Department, Wellington, arrived from the north by the steamer express yesterday morning, and later left by the express for the south. Mr F. T. H. Bell was appointed manager of the Canterbury representative team to play the English team, at a meeting of the management committee of the Canterbury Football Association last evening. Flight Lieutenant R. A. Anderson, adjutant at the flying training school at Wigram, arrived in Christchurch from Wellington yesterday morning. Mr C. J. Pugsley, manager of the Southern Cross Assurance Company, Ltd., Wellington, arrived in Christchurch from the north yesterday morning. Mr F. T. M. Kissel, Chief Electrical Engineer of the Public Works Department, arrived from the north yesterday morning. Sympathy with the relatives of Mr A. Burt, honorary secretary of the Buller Association Football Club, was expressed at a meeting of the management committee of the Canterbury Football Association last evening. Mr T. N. Gibbs left by steamer express last night for Wellington. Mr J. Henry Lang, who was formerly associated with the Young Men's Christian Association in New Zealand, India, and Australia, and who is now connected with a finance organisation in San Francisco, arrived by the Aorangi on a visit to the Dominion. He intends to renew old friendships, and will also assist the Young Men's Christian Association here with its forthcoming appeal for funds. Mr Lang, who was born in Christchurch, attended the University of Otago. He went to India as the first representative of the Young Men's Christian Association from Australia and New Zealand to do educational work among students. He spent three years in Hyderabad, and then became national secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association in Australia, working there during the Great War, and leaving for the United States in 1922. The financial organisation with which Mr Lang is now connected raises money for all kinds of social and philanthropic institutions.