Several of the appointments .'Uj'-chief magistracies iii Scotland aro noteworthy. In Aberdeen tho Lord Provostship - has been conferred upon Mr. Adam Mail;" land, a prominent member and officebearer in tho United 'Free Church. Mr. Maitland has been called back out of a temporary retirement from public life to assumo tho important duties. Ho ha/» been for a long period an older in Bon-. Accord U.F. Church, aud has been president of tho Aberdeen Y.M.C.A., of which, as well as of many other religious: and philanthropic institutions, he has been a generous supporter. But no religious work lies nearer the heart of tho new Lord Provost of Aberdeen than the Gal- . lowgato Sunday School, in tho midst of the city's slumdou. He has been superintendent of tho school for about twenty years, devoting a good part of every Sunday evening to the work. His wifo is a sister of Councillor J. A. Smith. J.P., a prominent member of Trinity Congregational Church. A daughter, who-has-taken lier doctor's degree, has lately been appointed a missionary to India.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1324, 30 December 1911, Page 5
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