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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27941, 12 April 1956, Page 12

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I Sir William Jordan, former New j Zealand High Commissioner in i London, was presented with the gold 1 badge of No. 75 (N.Z.) Squadron Asw- : ciation in Wellington on Tuesday night. He is the second man to be ! awarded the badge. The award was | made in recognition of the services of i Sir William Jordan to the squadron ; when he was High Commissioner and i the interest he took in it.—‘P.A.) Mr D. I. B. Smith, a lecturer to 1 i English at Auckland University Col- B | lege, has been awarded a three-yeer scholarship for study at either Oxfotd ■ or Cambridge universities. This is tht I first award of the scholarship provided * from a trust fund set up last year by I Mrs Eliot Davis as a memorial to her ■ late husband.— <P.A.) The Rev. H. Graham, who was minister at St. George's Presbyteni Church. Linwood, until 1951. has re signed from the active ministry, name was placed on the roil of Fra bytery as minister in retirement M evening. Mr E. Eggleston, who has been c<W i nected with the council of the Nort i Canterbury Acclimatisation SociH since 1916. re igned from the coune at its meeting last evening. Mr ston is now 83 vears old. The pre® dent (Mr W. J. MacGibbon' and oth< members thanked Mr Eggleston for to i services, which were greatly apprec ated by anglers and shooters, e pec ally those who obtained their sport I the Lake Ellesmere area. The Rev. J. W. Olliver has beefl 1 called to the charge of the Soutl I bridce-Dunsandel Presbyterian Chure i Mr Olliver has been minuter of Grew Island for 10 years. The Rev. F. j> Hume, who was minister of bridge-Dunsandel, is now minister Ocotiki.