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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23668, 19 June 1942, Page 4

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The congregation of Knox Church, Masterton, yesterday agreed to the Rt. Rev. John Davie, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand, accepting a call to St. Andrew’s, Gisborne. Mr Davie /will leave for Gisborne in August.—(P.A.) The chairman of the Manpower Committee, Mr J. S. Barnett, paid tribute gt yesterday’s meeting of the , committee to the qualities of Mr A. H. McKane, a member of the Armed Service Appeal Board, whose death occurred on Tuesday. He moved a vote of condolence with Mr McKane’s wife and children. The Greymouth Returned Services’ Association, at a special meeting, also paid tribute to Mr McKane, who for the last 20 years had been president of the association. A vote of condolence was passed with his relatives. The Greymouth Borough Council and the Grey Electric Power Board postponed their meetings as a mark of respect to Mr McKane. who had been a member of both local bodies. Mr and Mrs H. S. Boyle, Temuka, have received word that their son, Second-Lieutenant R. A. Boyle, is now attached as an instructor to the Royal Greek Army with the rank of captain. Captain Boyle received his commission in the Middle East, after serving in England, Greece, and Crete. The appointment of Mr Sze Zautsung as Consul of China at Wellington has been gazetted.—(P.A.) Mr A. W. Jenkyns has been appointed assistant waterfront controller at the port of Auckland. —(P.A.) Wing Commander Rex Kippenberger, who was one of the New Zealanders in the King’s Birthday honours list, is a brother of Brigadier H. K. Kippenberger, D.5.0., and the youngest son of Mr and Mrs K. Kippenberger, of Waimate. Mr G. A. Holmes, M.Sc., B.Ag.Sc., A.1.C., who has been appointed to the British Ministry of Agriculture as adviser on New Zealand methods of land development and farming practice, is well known throughout Otago and Southland -£S an agricultural scientist. Educated at Wakari School and at the Otago Boys’ High School, being dux of the latter in 1917, he graduated with honours at the University of Otago in 1921 .and then proceeded to the Canterbury Agricultural College, being gold medallist there in 1923. After some years’ service in the.Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture and on the staff of Lincoln College, Mr Holmes was appointed technical adviser to the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, Ltd., with headquarters in Dunedin, a position he occupied for eight years. In 1937 he was appointed to the head office of the Department of Agriculture, where, since the outbreak of the war his duties have been those of organiser- of farm supplies. When, in 1939, a commission was set up to report on the lime industry, Mr Holmes was chosen as chairman. He is also a member of the Standards Council.— (P.S.S., Dunedin.)