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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27987, 6 June 1956, Page 12

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The Acting-Prime Minister ‘Mr K. J. Holyoake • will fly to Christchurch i today to attend the annual conference of the Canterbury division of the National Parly. Mr Holyoake will fly °p *° c ’i* n Bt° n *he same day.— ■ Captain M. T. Holm has retired from the office of general secretary of the New Zealand Port Employers’ Association. Mr V. P. Blakeley, formerly assistant-general secretary, has succeeded him. and the new assistantgeneral secretary is Mr F. A. Conlon, who has been secretary of the association's Wellington branch. Mr L B 1 Smith, of the head office of the association. -has been appointed secretary of the Wellington branch.— »PA.»

Major F. A. Bishop arrived in Christ- < thurch from Wellington yesterday to i take up an appointment as deputy- 1 assistant quartermaster - geperal' at} 1 Southern Military District Headquar- : 1 ters. Major Bishop succeeds Major R. 1 T. Abbott, who will transfer to Nelson 1 an June 18. Captain H. A. Colquhoun arrived at ; Burnham Nfilitary Camp from Auck- i' land yesterday. Captain Colquhoun j will be artillery instructor at the j camp. ’ Mr H. J. Thompson, a former mem- < ber of the management committee of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Asso- 1 ciation and a Manawatu representative • ] on the council of the association for ( many years, will be the official New ; Zealand representative at the Wimble- 1 don championships this year. He will , also be the second New Zealand delegate to Mr E. D. Andrews at the an-, nual meeting of the Davis Cup nations in London.—(PA.) The president of the Canterbury Uni- , versity College Students' Association •Mr J. G. Rutherford) has been reappointed as its representative on the college council