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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22519, 29 September 1938, Page 10

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The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) left for Dunedin yesterday morning. With him was the Minister for Mines (the Hon. P. C. Webb). They will both pass through Christchurch next Wednesday on their return to Wellington.

The Minister for Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) left Christchurch for Dunedin by air yesterday afternoon.

The Deputy-Mayor (Cr. J. S. Barnett) will leave to-night for Wellington, where he will attend meetings of the executive of the Municipal Association of New Zealand, and of the Centennial Provincial Courts Committee. He will return tq Christchurch on Sunday

The City Engineer (Mr A. R. Galbraith) will return to Christchurch to-day from Wellington, where he attended a meeting of the New Zealand Standards Institute, of which he is chairman.

The Hon. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, M.L.C., was re-elected patron of the Automobile Association (Canterbury) at its annual meeting last night. Mr H. C. Harley was re-elected president.

Mr R. A. Falla, curator of the Canterbury Museum, was appointed a supernumerary member of the council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society at a meeting last evening.

Mr E. J. Fawcett, Assistant Director-General of Agriculture, was a passenger from Wellington by the steamer express yesterday morning. Group Captain L. M. Isitt arrived in Christchurch from Wellington by air yesterday. Mr H. A. Colijn, a son of the Prime Minister of Holland (Dr. H. Colijn) and general passenger manager of the K.P.M. Line, Batavia, arrived at Wellington by the Wanganella yesterday. He is on leave and will go to Holland via Honolulu and America.

Mr M. D. Townsend, of Christchurch, has been appointed second master at King’s College, Taunton, Somerset. He recently returned to Somerset from a holiday of several weeks spent with friends in Lithuania. The' permanent appointment of Mr G. L. Pomfret-Dodd as secretary-manager for the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society was approved by the council of the society at a meeting last evening. High tributes to the manner in which Mr Pomfret-Dodd had carried out his duties were paid by the chairman (Dr. D. McK, Dickson) and members of tho oouocllit .