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Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 267, 12 November 1945, Page 4

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The appointment of a successor to Very Rev. W. Fancourt as Dean of Auckland and Vicar of St. Mary’s ProCathedral at Parnell is announced. He is Rev. Sidney Getliing' Caulton, Vicar of Onehunga since February, 1943. Mr. A. Bush, of the Bank of New Zealand staff at Rougotea, has been transferred to Suva, Fiji, and Mr. P. Murray has been appointed to succeed him. Mr. Bush was a popular member of the R.S.A., the tenuis club, and other bodies in Rongotea and his departure was much regretted. Before leaving, he was the guest at a gathering held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. N. Ingpen, when friends were present from Palmerston North, Marton, and Rongotea. Good wishes for his future success were expressed, and he received a presentation.

Mr. C. N. Rabone, formerly a wingcommander in the R.N.Z.A.F., has been appointed Director of Supply and Transportation for all Germany, according to a Press Association telegram from Wellington. Mr. Rabone is well known in Palmerston North, having been engaged in the auctioneering business for a number of years, and he was also known on the bo'wling green as a member of the Northern Club. At the outbreak of war Mr. Rabone entered the R.N.Z.A.F., and he was in command of the Initial Training Wing for a long period, the wing for a time being situated in Linton Camp and later in the South Island. Mr. D. F. Smillie, of Palmerston North, arrived back from Australia on Saturday after having been absent from the Dominion for a month. He flew across the Tasman both ways. Mr. Smillie’s primary object in going to Australia was to attend the triennial Australasian conference of the 1.0.0. F., of which he is Grand Treasurer. Four other New Zealanders were also present. Mr. Smillie, as a member of the Palmerston North Milk Board, was very interested in the way milk was handled in Sydney and has brought back a considerable amount of information on the subject. An invitation to attend a meeting of the Municipal Council of Sydney -was accepted and afterwards Mr. Smillie was the guest of the Lord Mayor of Sydney. When he arrived in Australia, there was the strike in the electrical works supplying Sydney and he experienced the novel situation of the N.S.W. capital back to lanterns and candles. '

Ship’B Trimmer Killed. A member of the crew of the coastal steamer Korowai was found dead under a fall of coal in the ship’s bunker at Auckland on Friday afternoon. He was Leslie Stafford, aged 18, trimmer, Radley Street, Christchurch. The Korowai left Auckland at 1.55 p.m. for Lyttelton, and the youth was last seen by some of the other members of the crew about 1 o’clock. He was on the 12 to 4 o’clock watch. As he was missing at 4 o ’clock, the chief engineer, Mr. L. Davies, went in search of him, and on looking through an opening from the bunker to the stokehold he saw an arm protruding from the coal. Immediate steps were taken to remove the coal, and the body was recovered at 5.30. The discovery was made when the Korowai was off Cape Colville, and the vessel returned to Auckland.

“Nursing” a Laugh The technique of “nursing” a laugh was introduced to members of the Christchurch Rotary Club when Miss Ngaio Marsh gave an address at the club’s luncheon, states the “Star-Sun.” Miss Marsh showed the distinction between screen and stage jokes. She gave an imitation of a screen scene just after somebody had “cracked a joke,” when she explained, the audience probably burst into spontaneous laughter and for some seconds the picture continued with the players mouthing their dialogue but with no track. The trouble with “nursing” a laugh in that fashion was that no Hollywood producer could be sure that a joke in New York might also be a jojeo in Waipukurau. Conversely, a stage actor, w)ien he scored a laugh, had at his command a subtle technique whereby he could “nurse” a joke as lie desired. He could with his resourcefulness, “kill” the laughter whenever he wanted,