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Evening Star, Issue 17543, 24 December 1920, Page 8

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Sir Robert Stout (who has been granted a year's leave of, absence) will, with Lady Stout; be a passenger by the February steamer for ban Francisco. Thev then go on to-England. Ihere is no gronnd for the report that Sir Robert intends learning the Chief Justiceship. rhe following Otago candidates passed the State examination for. registration as nurses, recetvmg 75 pox cent, or more :- SH*ii Ba^ letfc ' ®™ E- Hollands, Ethel I Miles Theresa Cullington, Helen ShS,? £ P^° Qbe B " Cameron (Ihm(Oamaru) Gladys Watt and Barbara Gelltained by Williamenia Smith (medical Waimate, and Hyacinths £ew medical and surgical), Dnnedin Christmas greetings from His Worship r^ i nd Cha Aid Board, tie f!tS , Le^del P«>Prietary .acknowledged and reciprocated Messrs R. S. Black,. G. I. Black, and Miss Black left this morning for Auckm £ tn^ s the Davis Cu P contest. Mr E W Beaglehole, Director of Education for Yvestern Samoa, arrived in Auckland by .the Njnrua. M^«f J *+ H * ■® al J non ' , the SSn^d&St * take dMUBe ° f th °

TtSh, the New Zealand Health Department,- who has been investigating health conditions in Samoa -for the last three months, has returned to New Zealand by the Navua. He is to make a special report to his department. Br R. H. MakgiJL whohas been spending a J? W a TiM. m A P ia on business connected with the administration of his dePa £r m n ere ' returned. »Jtt i* Ms F Le p. of the Me of Stye and JWon who has beea on a * New Zealand for the past 18 months, js now m Auckland making inquiries as to the opemngs f or working Scottish farmers with capital, and for qualified domestic science teachers, and as to the prospects lor investments for British capital. He is also making inquiries on behalf of parents who are contemplating bringing out 8053 and girls from the Old GountrV to NeV ¥ T l iacL w is hon. secretary of the London Liveimess-shire Association-vice-president of the Gaelic Societv of .London; a member of the council of the federated Scottish Associations of London; of the London Burns Club; Scottish Lktns Association, of London; and also °L h 1 ,^ ho Ssn * c o Committee and other bodies.

Mr G. Fitzpatrick, formerly private secretary for Mr W. Holman when the was premier of New South Wales, is now an associate director on the Tivoh Theatres, Ltd., and is representing that interest with 'The Man from Toronto' Company now in New Zealand.

There passed away on Saturday at her residence, Hataitai, Mrs Anne M'Conrisky one of New Zealand's early settlers The late Mrs M.TJpmisky was 71 years of a* C) and was well kno\vn both in Wellington and in South Taranaki. She experienced many of the struggles which fell to the lot of New Zealand's' pioneers, and went throngh.-the Maori Wars in South Taranaki. For over 40 years she was a resident of Patea, arriving before the first railway went through. The name of Charles Edward a pupil of Mr Harold' Browning, was inadvertantly omitted from the published list of candidates who recently passed the L.A.B. examination of the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music

Mr G. A. Lewin, Town Clerk, left this morning toNspend a holiday in the south. Before leaving the Tokomairiro High School to take up her new duties as first assistant at Tapanui, Miss A. G. Graham was presented by her fellow-teachers with a hand mirror as a memento of her time at the school, and as a token of goodfellowship.