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Evening Star, Issue 22722, 9 August 1937, Page 9

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‘—Ministerial.— The Postmaster-General (Hon. F,Jones) concluded his week’s visit to Dunedin last night, when he travelled by the express to Christchurch. The Minister was engaged on departmental business there to-day and hopes to leave for Wellington to-night. His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy left this morning for Invercargill to preside at the quarterly session of the Supreme Court, beginning to-morrow. Mr G. T. Baylee was a passenger by, this morning’s express on his way to Taumarunui. The Hon. M .Connelly, M.L.C., left for Wellington this morning. Mr Paul Moller was a passenger for Ashburton by this morning’s express. Sir Charles Statham is on a visit to Dunedin. Dr Cyril Norwood, president of St. John’s College, Oxford, who visited Dunedin with other educationists , recently, has been elected president of the Modern Churchmen’s Union in succession to the Dean of St. Paul’s (Dr W. R. Matthews). Mr Cecil Drury left by train this morning for the north. Miss Essie Ackland and Messrs Reginald Morphew,_ Leo. Whittaker, and Lionello Cecil, visiting artists under the National Broadcasting Service, left by, train to-day for Christchurch. Mr Frederick M. Sherwood, now private Secretary to the PostmasterGeneral and Minister of Defence (Hon. F. Jones), and formerly secretary to the Minister of Education, was a pupil at the Caversham School, a fact mentioned by. several speakers at the opening of the new infante’ department on Saturday afternoon, when Mr Sherwood waa present. . Mr E. A. Bastings, of the local Peru sions Office, has been appointed Regis-; trar of Pensions for Westland, and leaves for his headquarters at Greymouth on August 18. Mr A. K. Oak-Rhind, director Vaccum Oil Company Pty. Ltd., having completed 40 years’ service with the company, has decided to retire from active participation in the company’s business after 27 years’ strenuous work as director in charge of motor spirit marketing, and also, during the past il years, as Director of Aviation.Joining the company in its infancy, he has watched the motor industry grow, from the time the cars in New Zealand and Australia could be numbered on the fingers of two hands. Still limping slightly and walking with the aid of a stick. Mr R. A. Singer, the Auckland barrister who was seriously injured by a bomb as he was entering the garden of his home on the evening of Friday, July 9, paid a brief visit to his office on Friday afternoon 1 and again, on Saturday morning, but' returned later to the private hospital, where he is still being treated for al wound in the left leg, in which there is a piece of metal. Mr Singer was to leave to-day for a holiday with a friend in the country. A Press Association cable message from Ottawa states that the National Conservative Convention refused to accept Mr R. B. Bennett’s resignation,and he has consented to continue as leader. _ Members of the police force stationed in the suburbs met at the South! Dunedin Police Station on Friday night to bid farewell to Constable G. Schruffer,_ who has been in charge of the St. Clair district for the past 20 years, and will, at'the conclusion of three months’leave of absence, retire from the force.Presenting Constable Schruffer with a leather suitcase, Sergeant Stark paid a warm tribute to his qualities as a citizen and as a police officer, and, on behalf of those present, wished him and Mrs Schruffer long and happy year* of retirement.