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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22336, 25 February 1938, Page 12

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The Minister for Labour and for Employment (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) received a number of deputations yesterday morning. He inspected lucerne experiments at Styx and Bottle Lake and visited Tuahiwi in the afternoon. The Minister will return to Wellington by the steamer express this evening. Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, who is organising the tour of English public schoolboys in New Zealand, returned from the Hermitage, Mount Cook, yesterday in the Canterbury Aero Club’s Miles Magister aeroplane, which he piloted himself. He left for Wellington by the steamer express last evening. The Mayor (Mr J. W. Beanland) and the Town Clerk (Mr J. S. Neville) will leave Christchurch this evening for New Plymouth to attend the annual conference of the Municipal Association of New Zealand. Dr. R. R. D. Milligan, president of the Christchurch branch of the League of Nations Union, arrived from the north by the steamer express yesterday morning. Mr S. A. R. Mahoney arrived by the interisland steamer yesterday morning, Mr A. L. Macfarlane returned to Christchurch by the inter-island steamer yesterday morning. Mr H. de R. Flesher arrived by the steamer express yesterday morning. Dean Julius was a passenger from the north by the steamer express yesterday. Mr T. P. Fotheringham, inspector-in-charge of the New Zealand division of the Union Bank of Australia, Ltd., is on a visit to Christchurch.

Mr Frank Milner, rector of the Waitaki Boys’ High School, was the guest of the Christchurch branch of the school’s Old Boys’ Association at luncheon at Ballantynes yesterday. Mr A. G. Jamieson presided at the function and Mr Milner gave an address on current events overseas. Squadron Leader E. G. Olson has been appointed temporary Officer Commanding the Royal New Zealand Air Force station at Wigram, states a Gazette notice.—Press Association. Mr P. Stanley Foster, of Christchurch, has been appointed a member of the Medical Council, according to a Gazette notice.—Press Association.

Mr N. W. Robbins was appointed secretarytreasurer at a recent meeting of the executive of the Christchurch Musical Society. Mr Thomas E. West left yesterday for the south to fulfil broadcasting and other engagements. , Mr J. J. Marlow, Mayor of St. Kilda, Dunedin, passed through Christchurch last evening on his way to attend the Roman Catholic centenary at Auckland. Messrs A. H, Nordmeyer, M.P., and W. A. Bodkin, M.P., left for Wellington last evening. The Rev. E. T. Cox, who has been Mayor of Dunedin for two terms, has been selected as the official candidate of the Labour Party for the Mayoralty at the coming municipal elections.—“ The Press” Special Service. Monsignor Morkane, administrator of St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Dunedin, the Rev. Father M. Dowling, S.M., rector of St. Bede’s College, Christchurch, the Very Rev. Father P. Timoney, administrator of the Christchurch diocese, the Very Rev. Dr. J. Kennedy (Beckenham), and the Very Rev, Father J, Long, administrator of the Greymouth district, left Christchurch by the steamer express last evening to attend the Roman Catholic centenary celebrations at Auckland.