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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22367, 14 September 1934, Page 10

PERSONAL

e Ministerial. The Prime Minister (Mr G. W. Forbes) left for Christchurch last evening. He will attend the dinner to be held by the Canterbury branch of the Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen’s Association to-day to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary. Mr P. N. Bundle left by car yesterday on a business visit to Wellington. Mr S. C. Sutherland left by the second express yesterday, en route for Wellington. Major O. H. Mead left by the second express yesterday for Christchurch. Mr A. H. Allen left yesterday to attend a meeting in Wellington of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. Mr H. F. von Haast, of Wellington, came to Dunedin by the express from the north yesterday afternoon. Sir Lindo Ferguson and Dr Newlands returned yesterday ‘ from Wellington, where they attended a meeting of the Board of Health. Dr Kenneth Mackenzie, of Auckland, arrived by the north express yesterday. Professor Lawson returned yesterday from a visit to Wellington. Mr J. W. Olphert, a master of the Napier Boys’ High School, has been selected as manager of the team of schoolboy athletes for the Melbourne centenary. A Press Association message from Wellington states that the appointments of Mr James Begg and Mr Thomas Andrew Duncan as producers’ representatives on the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board are gazetted. Mr C. W. Rattray, who has been in Wellington attending a meeting of the Union Steam Ship Company, Ltd., travelled south yesterday on the express from Christchurch as far as Waikouaiti. Mr John Stringfellow, the well-known Corriedale breeder, of Moroa, Greytown; has accepted the position of judge of the Corriedale sheep at the Melbourne Centenary Show. Mr Stringfellow will sail for Australia on October 11. A Gazette notice announces the appointments of Mr Frederick Edgar Nottage and Mr Alexander Morris Robertson as representatives of the producers on the New Zealand Fruit Export Control Board. Mr Malcolm Miller, formerly of Christchurch and Lyttelton, has been appointed from a number of candidates to fill a vacancy for a bass singer in the choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. Recently, Mr Miller came second in a final test for a three years’ scholarship in the Royal Academy of Music, London. Mr F. E. Hutchinson, who has held the lectureship in forest utilisation at Canterbury College up till the recent closing of the Forestry School, has (says a Press Association telegram from Christchurch) been appointed to a position in Melbourne on the forest products laboratory staff of the Australian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.