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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22712, 26 October 1935, Page 14

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Mr J. Samson left Dunedin yesterday morning for Wellington. Mr D. K. Macdonald returned by the express yesterday afternoon from a business trip to Auckland. __ Mr C. N. Draper and Mr N. Oram were passengers by yesterday’s express for the north, en route to Wellington. Mr F. T. Badcock, who. during the past cricket season in England, has been playing for a club attached to the Lancashire League, returned to Dunedin yesterday afternoon to resume his coaching duties with the Otago Cricket Association. Mr John Scott, managing director of Messrs J. and A. P. Scott, Ltd., returned by the Rangitiki from a business trip to Great Britain, and arrived in Dunedin by the express yesterday afternoon. A Press Association cable message from Geneva states that the Canadian, Mr R. W. Riddell, was elected chairman of the International Labour Office. Mr T. C. A. Hislop (leader of the Democrat Party) delivered an address in Mosgiel last night. He will leave this morning for Central Otago, and in continuation of his political campaign will speak in several townships before going on to South Canterbury. Mr S. B. Clarke, Dominion secretary and treasurer for the Democrat Party, was a passenger by yesterday’s express for the north, en route to Wellington. Retiring after 40 years’ service with the department, Mr J. M. M'Lean, chief postmaster at Wellington, was yesterday presented with a gold wristlet watch and a well-filled wallet by his fellow postal officers. Mr C. Egerlon Lowe, examiner in musical subjects for Trinity College of Music, London, arrived in Dunedin on Wednesday, and is at present conducting the practical examinations, which will extend over a period of three weeks. The members of the Government Railways Board (Sir James Gunson, acting chairman, Messrs G. W. Reid, D, Reese, and E. Newman), accompanied by the general manager, Mr G. 11. Mackley, arrived in Dunedin yesterday afternoon on the final section of their tour of inspection of the South Island railway system. On Wednesday morning the party visited Invercargill, and went on to Te Anau in the afternoon, and on the following day a visit of inspection was paid to the Eglinton and Hollyford Valleys on the new road to Milford. After hearing a deputation from the Otago Provincial Council of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, the board left by train at 10 o’clock last evening for Christchurch.