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Evening Star, Issue 19052, 22 September 1925, Page 6

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Replying to an inquiry regarding Air T. M." Wilford's health, Airs AVilford said to-dav that, though he was iar from well she was sure there was a definite improvement.-—AVollington Brass Association telegram. Mr R. T. Badd went to AA'aimaie today for a run arbitration. Mr AV. Bryant and Air AV. E. Reynolds started" for AVellintgon to-day to attend a meeting of the Dairy Produce Board. Air AV. T. Bolnm was a passenger lor Christchurch by the 11.30 train to-day. Air J. Ringland (Iron and Steel Co.) and Alt 1 A. Siuellio (Otago Bolling Mills) wore companions on the second express ns far as Lyttelton to-day, and will cross the. Strait to-night. Air Roderick Mackenzie went, to-day to Christchurch by the 11.80 train. The Rev. H. Paratn. and the Rev. Father O’Neill, tho Otago delegates to the military chaplains’ conference at Wellington, loft Dunedin this morning. Tho business at tho conference is to appoint chaplains for the camps. The first travelling art scholarship offered in New Zealand has been won by Mr AV. E. J. Cook, a student and parttime teacher at the Canterbury College School of Art. Tho award ho has gained is tho Sawtell Scholarship given by the Society for Imperial Culture, and tho holder will ho able to study for two years at some European art school. Mr Cook probably is_ one of the most brilliant students in life work produced by the school of art, and he promises to go far in his chosen career. He was born twenty years ‘ago at Hoathcote, and for the past seven or eiglit years he has been at the school of art. "Last year ho won the college medal for pure art.—Our Christchurch correspondent. The death occurred at Auckland yesterday of Air Thomas Hall, at the age of sixty-sovon years. Ho was formerly District Lands Registrar at Auckland. Mr Russell H. Bartley, chief engineer of the Auckland Rower Board, has been appointed general manager to the board at a salary of £I,OOO a year, in succession to the late Air A. Wyllio. Air John B. Hunter, who died at Riverton yesterday, is well remembered in the printing trade. Ho served his apprenticeship as a compositor in the, ‘ Herald ’ office at Auckland, and as a journeyman came to Dunedin and held a frame in the ‘Star’ Office for many years, until with the introduction of the linotype he dropped out of the trade and took to country life. He counts amongst the intellectuals, being a diligent and brainy student. The latest visitors booked at the Excelsior Hotel are Mr AV. A. Barns and Mr and Airs G. Merkins (Christchurch), Air H. Amies Wellington), Mr M. E. Martin (Temuka), Air G. Edwards (Alelbourne), Air J. Fisher (Gore), and Airs M’Connochie (St. Bathuns). Those staving at tho City Hotel are Air and Mrs Grierson (Christchurch!, Air and Airs T. A. Alunro (Oamaru), Air G. Aicken (Timaru), Air A. Fleming (Otokia), and Messrs J. E. Al’Donald and J. Hobbs (Gore). Air \V. E. Tyson left this morning for Auckland la Jpin