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Evening Star, Issue 20995, 8 January 1932, Page 9

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The Prime Minister (Hon. G. W« Forbes) will return to Wellington either at the end of this week or the! beginning of the next. He has been; on holiday since before Christmas. The Minister of Public Works (Hon.-, J. G. Coates) is expected to return to Wellington early next week after spending a holiday in the north, Mr J. J. Fleming, of the Dunedin Training College staff, has been ap-; pointed head - master of the Albany Street School.

Mr J, A. Johnson, ex-principal of the Teachers’ Training College, Hobart,' arrived in Dunedin by the first express yesterday. Mr Johnson is well known in Dunedin, having been a member of; the Forbury and High Street Schools’'! teaching staffs. He intends to spend a brief holiday with his relations. Senior-sergeant Martin, who is tOj take up duty at the central police sta-' tion, arrived in Dunedin yesterday. Mr J. H. Duncan left this morning’ for Wellington. Mr H. of the local staff of: the Bank of New Zealand, who has been j transferred to Suva, went north thisi morning en route to his new appoint-’ ment. The Board of Directors > of the National Bank of Australasia Ltd./ Melbourne, announce the resignation as a director of the bank of Mr J. Newman Barker, acting upon medical advice. Mr Barker has been a director of the bank for the past nineteen years, during four and a-nalf years of which he filled the position of vice-chairman.:! —Press Association. _ , Recent guests at the Grand Hotel in- ' elude Mr H. P. Christmas, Mr F. N.- 1 Leech (Sydney), Lieutenant-comman-i der and Mrs ,W. H, Bremner (Wellington) . „ Mrs G. Halfpenny (Cheshire, England), Captain G. B. Corby, Mr F. A.Majo’r (Wellington), Mr R. West (Otautau) are staying at the Excelsior Hotel.