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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 139, 9 March 1943, Page 4

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Vice-Regal. Government House, Wellington, March 8. Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and Lady Newall, attended by Major C. J. Holland-Martin, returned to Wellington from Auckland this morning.

Mr. S. Eichelbaum,. Wellington, lias returned from a holiday visit to Dunedin.

The Rev. R. J- Liddell, Glen Eden, Auckland, will retire from the Methodist ministry on April 1 after 45 years service.

Mr H. Digby Smith, chairman of the Social Security Commission, and Mr. A. O. von Keisenberg, secretary of the Health Department, have returned from Australia.

Mr. William Simm, Wellington, was presented last week with his certificate of life membership of the New Zealand Federation of Drapers and Allied Retailers. Mr. Simin's is the first election to such membership.

The Rev. ‘J. Ainsley Dalglish, Carterton, hns been appointed to the Pukekohe Methodist circuit to succeed the Rev. IV. G SJade. who lias been appointed to the Trinity Methodist Church, Dunedin.

Mr. C. E. Purchase, formerly a lawyer practising in Christchurch and now a resident magistrate in Uganda, Central Africa, is visiting New Zealand with his wife and child on three months’ furlough.

Mr. J. Stanton has been elected president of the Auckland Law Society. Canon H. E. K. Fry, Vicar of Lower Hutt, lias, for health reasons, given notice of his desire to relinquish the parish. He hns been offered and has accepted the parish of Otaki, the vicar of which, the Rev. G. Watson, is retiring from active work. Sir Harry Batterbee, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, will be in Christchurch from Thursday, March IS, to Sunday. March 21, and on March 22 and 23 at Dunedin, where he will attend the anniversary ceremony of the Otago Early Settlers’ Association. He will be in Invercargill from Wednesday, March 24, to Saturday, March 27, visiting Stewart Island on March 25.