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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20703, 29 April 1929, Page 10

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Ministerial. The Attorney-genera} (Mr T. K. Sidey) left Dunedin for Wellington on Saturday morning. He hopes to return here by May 9, to take the chair at the first meetmg of the season of the Historical Society, which was founded last year in Dunedin. At that meeting an address on Dr Thomas Burns will probably be given by Dr Merrmgton. - Hr F. E. -Tyson left Dunedin for Wellington on Saturday morning. Mr James Fotheringham was a passenger for Christchurch by the express on Saturday. Mr George Andrews travelled to Txmarn by the express on Saturday. • Mr Justice Herdman and-Mr D. G. A. Cooper (members of the Prisons Board) left Dunedin for Wellington on Saturday. Mr J. Sutherland Ross’went north by the through express on Saturday to make a business trip to the North Island. He will be away from Dunedin for about a -fortnight. , _ Mr R. P. Connolly, who has left the service of Messrs Macky, Logan, and Caldwell to take up a position in Auckland, was a passenger for the north by the express on Saturday. Mr Allan Box a director of White Horse Distillers, Ltd., Glasgow and, London, is at present on a visit tc Dunedin. The death occurred in Wellington on Friday (says a Press Association telegram) of Mr Sydney Nicholls,. an old-time Poneke and Wellington full-back. He was 65 years of age. He leaves six sons and two daughters. ■!. The friends of Mr W. E. Aitchison, A.0.5.M., will be 1 interested to learn that he has been appointed superintendent of the Big Missouri mine at Stewart, British Columbia. This mine, which is in. the .Portland canal district, is controlled by the Consolidated. Mining and Smelting Company of_ Canada, and is one of the largest mining companies operating in Canada. Our special correspondent in Wellington states that advice has been received by the Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) that Mr Paul Sykes, who has been Assistant Canadian Government Trade Commissioner, has left New Zealand under instructions from the Canadian Department of Trade and Commerce, and is now en route to, Hongkong where he will open an office as Canadian Government Trade Commissioner. On Saturday morning an opportunity was taken by the local staff of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile’ Agency Company, Ltd., to bid farewell to Mr A.. A. Jenkins, who has represented the Union Assurance Society, Ltd;, on the company’s staff for some years, Mr Jenkins has been promoted to a 1 higher, position in the company’s head office, Wellington. Good wishes were 'expressed for Air Jenkins’s success and he was the recipient of a solid leather suitcase and travelling rug from his fellow officers.