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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22414, 30 May 1938, Page 8

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The Minister for Education and Health (th# Hon. P. Fraser) will leave for Rotorua and the East Coast to-night by the Limited express. He will visit Tauranga, Whakatane, Opotiki, Gisborne, and other parts of this district, and during his tour will give several public addresses. He expects to be away about a fortnight.

The Minister for Public Works (the Hon. R, Semple) will speak at Wanganui and Bulls this week, and will return to Wellington on Thursday,

The Hon. H, G. R. Mason, the Attorney-Gen-era!, with Mrs Mason, passed through Christchurch on his way south on Saturday. The Minister will lay the foundation stone of the new Courthouse in Invercargill to-morrow, and will open a new Courthouse at Ashburton on Friday. He will return to Wellington on Sunday.

The Hon, Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, M.L.C., returned from the north on Saturday. Mr S. Ritchie. Conciliation Commissioner, returned on Saturday from Wellington, Professor R. B, Dodds was a passenger from the north by the steamer express on Saturday.

Professor C. E. Hercus arrived from the north by the steamer express on Saturday. Dr. F, W. Hilgendorf, Director of the Wheat Research Institute, was an arrival from the north on Saturday,

Messrs H. E, Herring, H. S. S. Kyle, and W. M. C. Denham, members of Parliament, arrived from the north on Saturday by the steamer express.

Professor R, Burt was a passenger from the north by the steamer express yesterday. Mr G. T, Thurston arrived from the north by the steamer express yesterday morning. Staff changes and promotions in the Canterbury Regiment are announced in the Gazette as follows: —Lieutenant W. Hughes, 4th Cadet Battalion, to be captain; Lieutenant G. Guy, 3rd Cadet Battalion, transferred to the Reserve of Officers; Lieutenant A. R. Alexander, from the Southland Regiment, to be lieutenant with seniority (posted to the Ist Battalion). Captain E. E. Stevens, of the Nelson-Marlborough and West Coast Regiment, is transferred to the Taranaki Regiment.

Canon A. H. Norris, who has been chaplain to the Veterans’ Association for nearly 30 years, and who will leave the Cashmere Hills parish shortly to become vicar of Geraldine, was presented with a silver teasel at the-annual reunion of the association on Saturday evening. Mr George Brown, the Christchurch Tramway Board’s power-house engineer, has retired because of ill-health, after 26 years’ service, At a gathering held in his honour Mr Brown was presented with a wristlet watch on behalf of the staff, by Mr H. E. Jarman, the manager, who spoke appreciatively of his long and useful service. Other speakers were Mr W. D. Revington. the board’s engineer. Mr G, Hodge, permanent way sunerintendent, Mr T. Bain, works manager, and Mr L. Smith, accountant, Mr W. Gray has succeeded Mr Brown.

Mr C. A. Turner, formerly of New Plymouth, after two years' service in the Royal Air Force, England, in which time he has earned rapid promotion, has been selected from all New Zealander s in England for the position of navigation and signal instructor in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. He is only 22 years of age. His appointment has yet to be officially confirmed, and is. it is understood, subject to his proving satisfactory in a special year’s course of instruction in England.