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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 1 March 1938, Page 8

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Mr C. Morgan Williams, M.P. for Kaiapoi, left for Wellington on the steamer express last evening. Dr. Geoffrey Myers, of Wellington, returned to the north on the steamer express last evening. Mr A._ G. Lunn, president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, and Mr A. O. Heany, secretary, who are touring the South Island, were guests at the quarterly meeting of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Mr H. Winston Rhodes, lecturer in English at Canterbury University College, was yesterday appointed by the college council to fill a place on the Professorial Board of the college during the absence abroad of Professor F. Sinclaire. The award of a Workers’ Educational Association bursary to Mr S. M. Cook was approved by the Canterbury University College Council yesterday. Mr E. S. Brittenden, district traffic manager of the Railways Department, will return to Christchurch this morning from an official visit to Wellington. Mr R. McPherson, manager of the Wheat Committee, has left on a visit to Australia. He will return to Christchurch about the end of March. A motion of condolence with the relatives of Mr P. C. Vinnell, former Mayor of Timaru, who died last week, was passed by the New Brighton Borough Council at its meeting last night. Messrs S. G. Holland, T. H. McCombs, A. Campbell, H. S. S. Kyle, W. M. C. Denham, and E. J. Howard, members of Parliament, left for Wellington on the inter-island steamer last evening. Sir James Allen, the Hon. Frank O’Flynn, the Hon. T. F. Doyle, the Hon. J. K. Archer, and the Hon. W. Hayward, members of the Legislative Council, were passengers for Wellington on the steamer express last evening. Mr John Moloney, of Dunedin, to-day will complete 60 years of service in the building firm of W. Secular and Company, Ltd. For 43 years Mr Moloney has been managing trustee. He has also been a member of the board of directors for 38 years and chairman for 22 years of the National Insurance Company, Ltd.—“ The Press” Special Service. Mr K. B. Cumberland, B.A. (Lend.), has been appointed assistant lecturer in Geography at Canterbury University College. Mr Cumberland is at present assistant lecturer in geography at University College, London. He was educated at the Grange High School for Boys, Bradford, and at University College Nottingham, where he gained his B.A. degree with first-class honours in geography in June, 1935. He gained the Cropper Research Scholarship, and was appointed assistant lecturer in geography in the University o'f London in August, 1936. Mr Cumberland represented the British Universities at the International Student Games at Turin in 1933, in swimming and water-polo.