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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26117, 20 May 1950, Page 6

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The -’’rime Minister (Mr Holland) will arrive in Auckland on May 27 to be present at 4 he dedication and opening of the Coates Memorial Church at Matakqhe on May 27, which is the anniversary of the death of Mr Gordon Coates- in 1943. — (P.A.) Mr Bernard Kuskie, who has been official secretary at the Australian High Commissioner’s office in Wellington since October, 1945, has completed his term and will return to Canberra in the Monowai on June 30. He will be relieved by Mr J. S. Cumpston, who will arrive in Wellington with his wife and four children by the Wanganella on June 5.—(P.A.) Mr W. F. Young, district engineer of the Ministry of Works, will leave on Monday for the West Coast on official business. The Rev. Norman G. Dunning, of pigland, who arrived in New Zealand from the United States this week, is visiting Christchurch. Mr Dunnirig, who is a prominent Methodist minister in England, was the Sprunt lecturer at the Union Seminary Theological College in New York' for the last year, and he is on his way to Australia to be a special preacher for the “Crusade for Christ’’ campaign which is being organised by the Methodist Church of Australasia. He is staying at the Durham Street Methodist Church parsonage and will deliver both the sermons at the Durham Street Church to-morrow. Mr John G. Main, an arts student at the University of Otago, has been awarded a visitors’ scholarship to be held at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Advice to this effect has been received by the University of New Zealand, through which* the nomination was forwarded, from the : American Field Service authorities and from Dickinson College. Mr Main will be the fifth New Zealand student who has benefited in recent years from the joint generosity of the American FieldAService and Dickinson College.