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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22730, 16 November 1935, Page 14

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Ministerial. The Prime Minister (Mr G. W. Forbes) and Mrs Forbes will arrive in Dunedin from Oamaru by car about noon to-day. He will be accompanied by Mr C. A. Jeffery, private secretary. Mr Forbes will deliver an address in the Concert Chamber, Town Hall, tonight, and at Momona on Monday at 11 a.m.. He will then proceed to the Clutha electorate to deliver an address at Milton. He will visit Gore the following day, and will then return to his own electorate. Mr F. Waite, M.L.C., arrived in Dunedin by the express from the eouth yesterday. Mr W. Garrett was a passenger by the mid-day express yesterday, en route for Wellington. Mr J. Waters has returned to Dunedin from a tour of Great Britain, the United States of America, and the Continent. The Wellington City Council has appointed Mr B. 0. Peterson, at present deputy town clerk, to be city treasurer as from April 29, 1936. Mr John Farrell arrived in Dunedin last night to complete arrangements for the production of " Roberta," " High Jinks," and "Our Miss Gibbs," to be produced during a season beginning on November 26. Mr James Simpson has been engaged as* one of the lecturers at the South Island W.E.A. Summer School, which will be held at the Waitaki Boys' High School next Christmas. Mr Simpson's subjects will be "Appreciation of Music " and " Vocal Production." Mr W. E. Rutledge, of Perth, Western Australia, who arrived in Dunedin by the Marama, left by the second express yesterday for Christchurch. One of the passengers by the Marama last Tuesday was Miss Bessie Webster, who for the last 40 years has been in the service of the China Inland Mission. She has now returned to her native land. Before leaving New Zealand for China, Miss Webster was a school teacher, residing at Cust, in Canterbury. A sister is now on the staff of the Ross Home, North-East Valley, and her brother, the Rev. James Webster, is a retired Presbyterian minister, resident in Christchurch. Miss Webster remarked that the steamer Marama had a beautiful crossing over the Tasman Sea and, in addition to the pleasure of the trip, the calling in at Mil ford Sound would always mark the voyage as a most memorable privilege. Half the wonder, beauty, and solemnity of Milford Sound had never yet been told.