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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22607, 26 June 1935, Page 8

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Mr M. R. Cable travelled north by the through express yesterday. _ ... , Mr A. J. Cooner left for Wellington by the through express yesterday. Mr W. Taylor left by the through express yesterday on his way to WellingMr G. A. Lewin left yesterday fqr Wellington to attend a meeting of the Local Government Loans Board. Mr C. Latta left for the -north yesterday to join the Mariposa at Auckland, en route to Suva. , _ Mr H. L. Gibson, railway traffic man : ager, at Dunedin. and Mr J. Lindsay, ot Invercargill, left yesterday for WelhngMr G. W. Reid left by the through express yesterday to attend a meeting of the Railways Board in Wellington. Colonel F. W. W. Dawson, who has been assistant medical officer of health in ChristchurcK for the last 10 years, has received a new appointment as officer in charge of the newly-constituted Waikato health district. , The Rev. M. W. P. Lascelles, general secretary of the Baptist Union of New Zealand, left for Wellington yesterday. He has been visiting the Baptist churches and organisations ot the Dunedin and the Invercargill districts during the past 10 Reference was made by the president (Mr James Nelson) at the annual meeting of the Dunedin Horticultural Society last night to the deaths during the year of Messrs F. H. Hollingworth. H. Clark, and A. Moritzon, who, he said, had done yeoman service for the society. _ They had never tired of promoting the interests ol horticulture. Mr A. W. E. Webb has been appointed to the position of conductor of the St Kilda Band in place of Mr James Dixon, whose resignation was recently received. Mr Webb, who is a noted soprano cornet player, with several New Zealand championships to his credit, is at present conductor of the Queen Alexandras Own Band, Wanganui, and will assume his new duties as soon as hifi transfer can be arranged. Mr Robert Gilkison, of Dunedin, has been in London for a fortnight (says our London correspondent, writing on June 8), and is about to leave for a short tour in Belgium and Northern France with his sister, Mrs D. M'Donald. Later, he will tour in Scotland and renew acquaintance with many old friends. He hopes to cover on foot many of the less frequented parts of the Highlands, aB he is very fond or tramping. Mr Gilkison will return to New Zealand via South Africa, where he hopes to spend a few weeks.

Dr G. H. Scholefield has returned from Spain (says our London correspondent, writing on June 8). where he attended the quinquennial conference of the International Federation of Libraries, which was held under the auspices of the League of Nations. Conference meetings, which extended over a fortnight, were held in Madrid, Seville. Salamanca, and Barcelona, and were attended by a very repre eentative gathering of librarians from Fritain and most of the European countries (including Russia, the United States, Canada, and South America). Dr WW. Bishop, principal of the Library School at the University of Michigan, was president and Dr Sevensma, librarian of the League of Nations, acted as organiser. The proceedings were opened by the President of Spain, and the delegates were the gueste of the Spanish Government and various municipalities in all of the towns visited. While in Barcelona, Dr Scholefield attended the annual conference of the International P. E. N. Club (of which he is the New Zealand president). Mr H. E. Wells is international president. Since returning to London at the beginning of the week, Dr Scholefield has been attending an important conference on Collective Security under the auspices of the International Institute of Intellectual Co-opera-tion, of which the Institute of Pacific Relations is the functioning body in New Zealand. .