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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23944, 11 May 1943, Page 4

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* The Prime Minister (the Rt Hon. P. Fraser) will arrive in Christchurch to-day to attend the diamond i u^'; ee celebrations of the New Zealand Educational Institute, The Minister of Eclu. cation (the Hon, H. G, R, Mason), the Mayor of Christchurch 'Mr E. H. Andrews) and the Director of Education (Dr. C. E, Beeby) will also be oresent. Mr D. Forsyth, of Dunedin, will preside.

The Minister of Transport (the Hon, J. O’Brien) visited Hokitika yesterday. This morning he will leave by air for Haast. and to-morrow evening he will leave on his return to Wellington. Mr John Joseph Hcaslcy was last evening aopointed to the vacancy on the Tirnaru Borough Council caused by the resignation of Mr J. S. Satterthwaite before joining the armed forces. There were seven nominations for the vacancy, no election being necessary under war-time regulations to fill the vacancy.

To fill the vacancies caused by the retirement of Mr R. G. Lindsay, and the resignation of Dr. G. E. Giliett, Messrs R. G. Bishop, and D. Petrie were elected to the management committee of the Canterbury District Pig Council, at the annual meeting of the council last evening. Mr P. Stevens, who was also due to retire, was reelected. A motion of appreciation of the services of Mr Lindsay on the committee was passed. Mr Brian R. McC. Homersham, formerly of Christchurch, has been admitted as an associate member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London. Mr Homersham went to England some years ago to gain further experience in .electrical engineering.

The vivid descriptive dispatches sent from North Africa by Douglas Brass, the war correspondent of the “Herald," Melbourne, and formerly of the reporting staff of “The' Press," have been featured in the "Evening Standard," London. They became chief front-page news from the moment' General Sir Bernard Montgomery launched his offensive against the Mareth Line. The dispatches are appearing also in the "Yorkshire Post” and are being distributed in America by the North American Newspaper Alliance. They have been widely and favourably commented on, especially for their colourful accounts of the British soldiers deeds. Congratulatory messages have been sent from Britain direct to Mr Brass in the front line with the forces Mr Brass is a graduate of Canterbury University College, where he gained a senior scholarship in history, and graduated M.A. with first-class honours.