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Evening Star, Issue 17367, 1 June 1920, Page 7

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Mr Boy Bra-sted, National Y.M.C.A. boys' work director for Australia, who has been attending the Dominion Y.M.C.A. Conference in Ghristchurch, loaves far Dunedin to-morrow.—Christ-church correspondent.

The Timara Borough Council last night, from 32 applicants, "appointed Mr G. T. Wilson, lato electrical engineer of the Hamilton Borough Council, to the position of borough electrical engineer, and Mr W. A. Mowat. formerly of' the N>vy, to the position of power-house engineer. There wore 33 applicants.—P.A. telegram, A large number of prominent Scotsmen, some of thorn Dominion office-bearers of the Piping and Dancing Association ot Now Zeahund, are visiting Dunedin at present from all parts of the North and faouth Islands _ in conection with the association's piping and dancing competitions. Among these visitors are MeEsra N. Mackenzie Forbes (president of the Wanganui Caledonian Society, and probably tho best Highland dancer ever in the Dominion), David Munro (ex-president of the Palmerston North Caledonian Society), Donald H. Mac Lean (Feilding), Wm. M'Lachlan (a prominent office-bearer of the Wellington Competitions Society), and Mr John Fraser, Limehills (ex-chief of the Southland Highland Society). The visitors are giving hieh praise to the local centre of the association for the excellence of the arrangement and management of the present Dunedin competitions.