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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23858, 29 January 1943, Page 4

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The Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones) will return to Wellington by air to-day. The Minister of Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) arrived in Christchurch yesterday and will remain here till Tuesday evening. He will be one of the speakers in the Christchurch' East by-election campaign. The Rev. C. H. Olds, of Hamilton, will be inducted as president of the New Zealand Methodist Conference when members meet in Christchurch on February 18. The retiring president is the Rev. William Walker, of Auckland. Messrs D, J. Hawker and W. Smith, Christchurch, will attend the Civil Defence School of Instruction at Wellington, next week. Mr Hawker is adjutant of the E.P.S. auxiliary traffic police, and Mr Smith is district fire warden in the Shirley School district. Gavin Smith, a pupil of the Ashburton High School, who was second on the list of candidates who passed the Public Service Entrance examination, is the only son of Mr C. P. Smith, postmaster at St. Albans. Smith, who is 15, had his primary education at the Greymouth Main School, winning the Watkins and Seddon Memorial Medals. In his third year at secondary school he also passed his university entrance examination, including the medical preliminary.