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Evening Star, Issue 23101, 29 October 1938, Page 17

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■ —Ministerial.— ( • The lion. Peter Fraser, Minister of Education and Health, visited the Seacliff Mental Hospital’ yesterday afternpon. This morning he laid the foundation stone of the new Training College, and this afternoon was to attend ths primary schools’ sports at Logan Park* The Minister, who has been accompanied by Mrs Fraser, leaves for. tha north by car to-morrow. Mr J. M. Butler, who arrived at Auckland on the 28th inst. by tbo Monterey from England eni route to Melbourne, •will arrive in Dunedin by car on Monday, and will spend a short holiday as the guest of Mr and Mrt M'Fadden, St. Clair. The Rev. I. L. Richards, vicar of St< Luke’s Church, Christchurch, arrived by the afternoon express yesterday. Alan Loveday, the boy violinist, left this morning on his return to his home at Palmerston North. . Dr James Lyon, examiner for Trinity College of Music, London, arrived in Dunedin; to-day,' arid will be here until November 24. Advice has been received of the appointment of Mr .A. G. C. Deuber as assistant to His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner in New Zealand at Wellington, in succession to Mr T. G. Muntz, who left New Zealand last January. Mr Deuber is expected to arrive at Wellington "about' th’e middlt of Npveniber.—Press Association. ■ . The Rev. J. S. Somerville, a licentiate of the Presbyterian Church, who-left Dunedin 15 mouths ago for -, further study in England aha Scotland ; returned yesterday. During his visit he attended Westminster College, Cambridge; and St. Mary’s College, St. Andrews, also the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland at Edinburgh. A quarter of a century as an executive official of the New- Zealand Em* ployers’ Federation is the record of’Mr A. 0. Mitchell, of Wellington, who was re-elected president at the annual meeting on Thursday. Mr Mitchell’ was vice-president for 16 years, and has entered his ninth, year as president. A Press Association cablegram from London states that Hilda Winifred, third daughter of Dr and -Mrs M° r . rt * Humphrey, of Sydney, has married Reginald William, only son of Mr and Mrs A. M‘Kay. of Dunedin.