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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22353, 29 August 1934, Page 10

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% Air J. G. Alexander returned to Dunedin by the north express yesterday afternoon. Air R. Hudson was a passenger for Christchurch on the pouth express yesterday morning. Air A. Al'Donald, who came to Dunedin owing to the death of his mother, returned to Wellington yesterday. Air T. R. Pryde, secretary of .the Southland Hospital Board, arrived in Dunedin yesterday morning to attend a meeting of the Waipiata Sanatorium CommitMr J., Sawers, of the head office o£ the New Zealand Railways Department, left for Wellington by the express yesterday morning after spending a holiday in Dunedin. 'Major-general Sir Andrew Russell (Dominion president of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association) and Air \v. Perry, AI.L.C. (Dominion vice-president) will attend the biennial conference in Alelbourne from October 25 to November 9 of the British Empire Service League, with which the N.Z.R.S.A. is affiliated. Air Harold Service left by the express for the north yesterday morning en route to England. Air Service is the. holder of the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship m science, and will pursue his studies at the Royal School of Mines, London. Mr Service is an Rugby representative forward. .. . . Air L. R. Bentley, of Invercargill, is on the staff of the Deputy Treasurer to hie Alajesty the King at Buckingham Palace (savs our London correspondent, writing on ‘July 20), and he is not very likely to return to New Zealand, although he regards himself as “ a very enthusiastic adoptee” of the Dominion. He is a New Zealander only by adoption. Archbishop Redwood, who is at present in Queensland, will return to Wellington next month. It is his intention to take part in the Eucharistic Congress to be held in Alelbourne in December, and he will be accompanied by Archbishop O’Shea, Bishop Brodie (Christchurch), and Bishop Liston (Auckland). Air Clement Alay, the well-known elocutionist and Dickens reader, will leave shortly for Hollywood (says a Press Association telegram from Wellington) seeking a market for a number of scenarios with a Dickensian background. >, Air May had a distinguished stage career before settling in Wellington, including probably the longest Dickens tour by anyone in the world. It lasted 17 years, and took him as far as Kabul in Afghanistan. • ' Captain Sir lan Fraser, chairman ot the Executive Council of St. Dunstan s since 1921, will shortly visit New . ealand. He will be accompanied by Lady Fraser and their daughter, Jean. Mr Clutha Mackenzie will accompany them on their tour of New Zealand. Sir lan, who is a war-blinded soldier, was trained at St. Dunstan’s. and Was appointed chairman of the council in succession to. Sir .Arthur Pearson. . ... ; w Mr D. C. Davie, the originator of the Douglas Social Credit Movement in Cam terbury, has announced his intention of contesting the Hurunui seat against the Prime Alinister (Mr G. W. Forbes)' M the next election. Air Davie was a farmer in the Waikari Valley for some years, and is well known in the . North Canterbury district, where he has de-. livered a number of lectures on Douglas Social Credit. He will contest the election as an Independent candidate and as a strong advocate of monetary reform. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, Dr Downey, has accepted Archbishop Mannix’s invitation to visit Alelbonrne for the Eucharistic Congress, and will accompany the papal legate, Cardinal Macßory. Dr Downey, who was appointed to the_ episcopate in 1928, and is engaged in building a new cathedral at Liverpool, is regarded as one of the foremost ecclesiastics and writers of his church in England. He and the Rev. Father Alartiudale will represent the English Roman Catholic Church at the congress. . ______