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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24386, 12 October 1944, Page 4

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The High Commissioner for Great Britain in New Zealand, Sir Harry Batterbee, accompanied by Lady Batterbee, will leave Wellington for the South Island on November 1. They will stay in, Christchurch until November 8,. when they will visit Dunedin until November 13. . On the feturn journey the High Commissioner will pay a short visit to Timaru, arriving back in Wellington on November 15.—(P. A.)

Vice-Admiral I. G. Glennie, former commander of the cruiser Achilles, has been appointed successor to ViceAdmiral Sir Alban Curteis as senior British naval officer in the Western Atlantic, according to a cable message from London.

Colonel J. W. McKenzie, senior chaplain of the New Zealand forces in the Middle East, who is back in the Dominion on furlough, was nominated as the next Moderator of the General Assembly at a meeting of the Christchurch Presbytery yesterday. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of Mr W. Andeuson, who died recently, was carried at a meeting of the general committee of the Canterbury Agricultural and - Pastoral Association yesterday. The president (Mr James Reid) said that Mr Anderson had been a well-known judge and exhibitor of various breeds of sheep at agricultural shows. He'was a true type of Border man.

Officers were elected as follows at the annual meeting of the Regional Youth Committee of the National Council of Churches.—chairman. Major G. Thompson; ‘vice-chairman, Mr C. *R. Russ; secretary, Mr L. F. Allison; treasurer, Mr J. Lawson. Others appointed to the committee were Misses I. C. L. Thorn and Hardie, Sister A. Kirkwood, Archdeacon A. C. Purchas, the Rev. M. A. McDdwell. and Messrs R. C. Sandford and D. F. Ayers.