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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22370, 6 April 1938, Page 8

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The Rev. F. J. Daynes, vicar of Amuri, has been appointed vicar of Wakefield, Nelson, and will leave Rotherham in the first week in May. The Rev. C. Tanner, vicar of Reefton, has been appointed to the vacancy and will take up his new duties at the same time. Mr R. W. Coupland, district manager in Christchurch of the New Zealand Tourist Department, has been advised of his transfer to the head office in Wellington. Mr L. J. Schmitt, general manager of the Tourist and Publicity Department, was a passenger by the steamer express yesterday morning. Adjutant A. Chandler arrived by the steamer express yesterday morning. Dr. W. S. Seed was nominated as a vicepresident of the New Zealand Rugby Union at the meeting of the management committee of the Canterbury Rugby Union last evening. Mr A. E. McPhail was nominated as a member ot the council of the union. Mr R. T. McMillan, chairman of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, and Mr C. H. Clibborn, secretary, left by the steamer express last night to attend a conference of representatives of harbour boards in Wellington. Messrs W. A. Ott, William Begg, and P. J. McLean, chairmen respectively of the Bluff, Otago, and Greymouth Harbour Boards, passed through Christchurch on their way to Wellington. Mr J. J. W. Pollard, director of the South Islands Travel Association, left for Wellington last evening. Mr David McDougall, M.P., left for the north by the steamer express last evening. The Rev. H. S. Hamilton, vicar of Methven, mentioned in an article in Monday’s issue of ‘‘The Press” as a son of the Rev. H. IJ. S, Hamilton, of Gisborne, is his nephew, being a son of Canon Staples Hamilton, of Rugby street, Merivale. Before the departure of the Rev. Father F.. Donovan for Toowoomba, Australia, on Monday evening, he was met by more than 400 parishioners who attended a farewell cipncert at the Spencer street Hall, Addington, in his honour. He was presented by the parishioners with a wallet of notes and by the children of the Sacred Heart Convent with a leather suitcase. Father Donovan was relieving the Rev. Father Joyce. Mr B. H. Painter, a member of the staff of the vocational guidance bureau of the Young Men’s Christian Association, has been appointed welfare officer for the Canterbury and Westland branch of the Crippled Children Society. His duties will include visiting homes of crippled children and maintaining contact between them and the society. Mr Painter has already been doing part-time work of this kind for the society, but the new position will be a full-time one. It has been made available to the society by the Government, through the 'Labour Department.