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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22109, 3 June 1937, Page 10

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Mr E. Archbold was a passenger by the steamer express from Wellington which arrived at Lyttelton yesterday morning. Mr H. C. Lusty, Inspecting Engineer of New Zealand Railways, arrived in Christchurch yesterday morning from Wellington. Mr W. O. Rennie, chairman* of the Canterbury Agricultural College Board, and Professor E R. Hudson, director of the college, returned to Christchurch from Wellington yesterday morning. Dr. Alan Park was a passenger by the steamer express from the north yesterday morning. The Commissioner ofPensions, Mr H. DigbySmith, will arrive in Christchurch this afternoon from the south, and will probably leave for Wellington to-morrow evening. Mr James Toohill, of Auckland, has returned home after spending a holiday with friends in Christchurch. Mr H. G. Galbraith has been appointed secretary of the Royal, Christchurch Musical Society in succession to Mr L. A. G. Barrett, who has resigned owing to his leaving Christchurch. Mr W. Buchanan was elected president of the South Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at the twenty-seventh annual conference of the branch yesterday in Timaru. Mr G. L. Pomfret-Dodd was re-elected unopposed as president of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society by a unanimous vote of the society’s council last evening. Dr. D. McK. Dickson and Mr George Ebert were elected vice-presidents of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society at a meeting of the society’s council last evening.