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Mr W. S. Hughes, a member of the New .Zealand Master Butchers’ Federation, will leave shortly for Australia to attend a.conference of Commonwealth meat traders in Sydney.
The Bishop of Lichfield (Dr E. S. Woods) will leave England shortly to represent the Church of England at some diocesan centenary celebrations in Australia and to pay an official visit to the Church in New Zealand. —London, September 24. An officer of the Chinese Central Government’s Ministry of the Interior, Mr Tao Ching-fu, 'arrived at Auckland by flying boat from Sydney yesterday. He is gathering information on methods of Government in various countries and at the same time will study living conditions of overseas Chinese. He has spent three months in Australia and after two months in New Zealand he will go to Fiji, Tahiti, Honolulu, and the United States.—(P.A.) Advice has been recieved in Dunedin that Mr W. J. Blackie, formerly of Dunedin, has been appointed deputy director of agriculture in Fiji. A graduate of the University of Otago, Mr Blackie joined the British Colonial service in 1929. An agricultural chemist in Fiji, he is a member of the legistlative council of Fiji Accompanied by his wife and two daughters, he is now on leave in the Dominion. —(P.A.)
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 September 1947, Page 6
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