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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23353, 12 June 1941, Page 4

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Mr E. S. Taylor was nominated by the general committee of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association yesterday as representative on the electoral committee of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board. Lieutenant-General Sir Guy Williams, who will be in New. Zealand for a few months in an advisory capacity on military organisation and training, is expected to visit Christchurch this Week. Mr Malcolm Fraser was elected president of the New Zealand Crippled Children Society at the annual meeting held this week. Mr S. E. Field, formerly of Dunedin, has been appointed Public Relations Officer of the Federated Malay States. The deaths of two life members were reported at a meeting of the general committee of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association yesterday. They were Mr George Gould and Mr W. Cunningham. The president, Mr J. C. Chamberlain, said that Mr Gould was a former president, and his father had been a president also. Mr Gould was keenly interested in light horses and was one of the first breeders here of Jersey and Guernsey cattle and Sussex sheep. Mr Cunningham was well known not only as a land valuer, but as a breeder of stud sheep and a judge. The meeting adopted resolutions of sympathy with relatives, and also with relatives of Mrs H. C. Townsend.