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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25741, 1 March 1949, Page 4

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Congratulations have been sent by the Mayor of Timaru (Mr A. E. S. Hanan) to Sir Heaton Rhodes on his eighty-eighth birthday. In Canterbury the Rhodes family went back 115 years, said Mr Hanan at a meeting of the City Council last evening. The Rhodes were the first white settlers in Timaru and had introduced the “golden fleece” into the Levels county in 1852, he said. Superintendent D. J. O’Neill will leave Christchurch to-morrow evening for Wellington to take up duty as superintendent of police at Wellington. He and Mrs O’Neill will be guests at a social this evening. Colonel J. I. Brooke, director of cadets, Army Headquarters, Wellington, left Christchurch yesterday for Gore to inspect the Gore High School cadets now in camp at the Gore racecourse. He will return to Christchurch to inspect the Christchurch Technical College cadet unit in camp at Burnham.

Dr. Hutchison. Cockburn, director of the reconstruction department of the World Council of Churches since 1945, and former Moderator of the Church of Scotland, will be in New Zealand for a period of nearly six weeks from about March 20. He will be the guest of the National Council of Churches, and will speak in many centres. Mr E. G. Bradley, son of Mr W. J. Bradley, of Tijriaru, has been awarded the Don McKenzie University Scholarship entitling the holder to three years at Canterbury College, where Mr Bradley will study law Mr Bradley is the first scholar to win both the scholarships given by Mr J. R. McKenzie in memory of his son, who lost his life in an air accident. Mr A. W. Savage was awarded the Workers’ Educational Association bursary for 1949 by the Canterbury University College Council yesterday.

Mr George C. Seers, managing director of General Motors, New Zealand, Ltd., Wellington, and Mr L. C. Arnott, his executive assistant, will sail from Auckland in the Aorangi today for a visit to North America and Great Britain. Mr Harlow W. Gage, manager of the vehicles department of General Motors, New Zealand, Ltd., will act as managing director of the company during Mr Seers’s absence.

Mr Arthur W. Gruhdy, who has been Dominion organiser for the Associated Churches of Christ in New Zealand for the last shree years, has accepted a call to the Moorhouse Avenue Church of Christ. Mr Grundy was born in Gisborne. He will be welcomed and inducted to his new charge next Sunday. Mr R. Hazzard, a former Australian Trade Commissioner in 'Hong Kong, has been appointed to succeed Mr J- J. Murray as Trade Commissioner in New Zealand. This was announced yesterday by the Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (Mr A. R. Cutler). Mr Hazzard. who will leave Sydney for Wellington by the Wanganella on March 10, is an authority on steel. He was at one time associated with the Broken Hill Proprietary. Ltd., and Australian and Steel. Ltd. Mr Murray, who left for Australia in January, has been appointed Trade Commissioner in Ceylon.— (P.A.)