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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22309, 25 January 1938, Page 8

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The Hon. F. Jones (Postmaster-General) will leave Wellington on Thursday to open the new ' post office at Thames on the following day. Advice has' been received that the Minister for Agriculture (the Hon. W. Lee Martin) is indisposed and will be unable to attend the National flower show in Christchurch to-day. The Hon. H. T. Armstrong, Minister for Labour, left Wellington for Lyttelton by the inter-island express steamer last night. The Minister, who will visit Southland and Central Otago, expects to return to Wellington towards the end of next week. Mr Irving Sladen, who, with his wife, will leave shortly on a tour of England and the Continent, was wished a pleasant voyage by members of the Christchurch Beautifying Association last night. The Hon. M. Connelly. M.L.C., left for the north last evening. Mr E. T. Tirikatene, M.P., left for the north last evening. Captain David Kee, of the Church Army, entered St. George’s Hospital yesterday, and will be a patient there for about a month. A motion of sympathy with Mr E. H. Andrews, a member of the association, in the death of his wife, was passed at a meeting of the Christchurch Beautifying Associatipn last night. The Rev. L. A. Knight will be consecrated Bishop of Bunbury at Perth, Western Australia, to-day. Mr Knight is an old boy of the Christchurch Boys’ High School and served as a chaplain during the Great War. Before being appointed warden of St. Barnabas’ College, Adelaide, he had been vicar at Hororata, Leithfield, and Kaiapoi, and he was also rector of the St. Saviour’s Boys’ Orphanage, Timaru. His enthronement will take place at Bunbury, which is 120 miles from Perth. Mr Fredrick Tatnell, only surviving son of the late Captain Tatnell, arrived in Wellington on Saturday by the Remuera. Mr Tatnell is the guest of his sisters, Mrs N. Eaton, of Dilworth street, Riccarton, and Mrs W. Wallis, of Fisher street, Beckenham, Christchurch. After touring New Zealand he will go to Sydney and Melbourne, and travel Home in the Stratheden, which is on her maiden voyage to Sydney and back to London. Mr Tatnell hopes to return to New Zealand in 1940 for the centenary.