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Messrs W. S. Mac Gibbon, C. W. Tyler H. S. Feast, and E. Williams, who, ’with Messrs J. W. Niven and E. F. Willcox, represented the Canterbury Provincial Patriotic Council at the annual conference of the National Patriotic Fund Board in Wellington, returned to Christchurch yesterday. Mr A. V. Coombes, senior supervisor of the postal branch at Nelson, will retire on November 30. He joined the Post and Telegraph Department in Christchurch in September, 1900. Appreciation of the efficiency, tact, and courtesy of Mr G. A. Hayden as secretary and treasurer of the National Patriotic Fund Board, was expressed unanimously by delegates at the conference of provincial patriotic councils in Wellington.—(P.A.) Mr David Henry, managing director of New Zealand Forest Products, Ltd., returned from Sydney this week by Tasman Empire Airways flying-boat. Mr Henry said he had been to Australia to inquire into matters associated with the establishment of pulp and paper making in New Zealand. Also a passenger by the flying-boat was Sir Charles Marr, of Sydney, who has come to' New Zealand to attend a full board meeting of the same company.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24116, 27 November 1943, Page 4
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