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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25609, 25 September 1948, Page 6

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The High Commissioner for the United Kingdom (Sir Patrick Duff) and Lady Duff will ’.leave Wellington on September 27 for engagements in Christchurch. They will return to Wellington on September 30.—(P.A.) Mr L. O. Desborough, registrar of Auckland University College, has been appointed registrar of Victoria University College to fill the vacancy caused by the forthcoming retirement of Mr G. G. S. Robison.—(P.A.)

The South Island Motor Union yesterday recorded regret at the deaths of Messrs F. W. Johnston (Christchurch). D. J. Wesney (Invercargill), and Edward Fryer (London). Mr Johnston was first president of the 5.1.M.U., and a former president of the Automobile Association, • Canterbury. Mr Wesney was also a former president of the union and of the Southland association. Mr Fryer was secretary of the Automobile Association in Great Britain.

Mr M. H. Holcroft. who recently retired from the editorship of the “Southland Daily Times.” will attend a , meeting of specialists in Paris called by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation to discuss the problem of tensions affecting international understanding. Mr Holcroft will represent the New Zealand national commission for UNESCO at the special request of UNESCO headquarters.—(P.A.) After 40 years’ service in the Railways Department, Mr T. Gallagher, railways signal and electric lines inspector for Canterbury, will retire on superannuation on October 1. Since joining the department at Dunedin in 1908 Mr Gallagher has been stationed in each province in the Dominion. He saw the first track circuit for electric signalling installed in Christchurch about 1915, and was foreman in charge of the installation of the first automatic signalling apparatus in New Zealand between Lambton and Lower Hutt in 1920. He will be succeeded by Mr F. Hantom; formerly signal and electric, lines inspector at Wellington. The follo.wing officers were elected at the South Island Motor Union conference yesterday: president, Mr W. R. Carey (Canterbury); vice-presidents, Messrs I. V. Wilson (Southland), R. Wilson (South Canterbury), and G. Hamilton (Canterbury); secretary and treasurer, Mr P. Harvey; executive, Messrs L. W. Broadhead. J. S. Hawkes, F. W. Freeman, R. Twyneham (Canterbury), P. W. Ereen and G. W. Ferens (Otago), and R. H. Parker (Pioneer clubs); auditor. Mr A. Donaldson. Messrs Alexander Drennan (Auckland) and T. G. Wells (Wellington), members of the national executive of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union, have been aopointed delegates to the biennial conference in Sydney on October 11 of the Australian Waterside Workers’ Federation.—(P.A.)