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Evening Star, Issue 20556, 7 August 1930, Page 11

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The Mayor of Dunedin (Mr R. S« Black) went off byr train this morning to attend the Municipal Conference at Wellington. Mr William Backhaus and his wife, with Mr E. J. Gravestock, travelled from Dunedin to Timaru by train .to* day for a concert there this evening. Mr J. G. D. Dempster was a passenger for Wellington by the midday express to-day. Mr E. L. Macassey left this morning for the north. Messrs W. H. Brent and A. J. Allen are on their way to Wellington for tha Timber Merchants’ Federation meeting. Mr H. A. Pierce, of Wmton, was a passenger. for Christchurch by to-day’s train. . .

■ Captain Chatman went by train today from Dunedin to Christchurch. Mr R. A. Falla, lecturer in nature* study at Auckland Training College,' has been appointed’a member of Mawson’s Antarctic Expedition. He went south _ with Mawson last year.—Press Association. At last night’s meeting of, the Mos-o-iel Borough Council the W. E. M'Lean) made sympathetic reference to the death of Sir Joseph Ward. Sir Robert Stout, and Mrs A.' Davidson (wife of an ex-councillor of the borough). , ! City Hotel guests include Mr J-i Henderson (Auckland). Mr A. M'Donald (Ashburton'l, Messrs J. Preston and R. Thomson (OamaruK Mr V. Snafu fEarnscleugh), Mr A. Preston (Kyeburn), and Mr R. Rankin (Invercargill. .