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Mr A. R. Mackay has returned to Dunedin after, an extended visit to the north. Mr Colin D. Stevens, a member of the local staff of the Union Steam Ship Company and well known to travellers by Union Airways, has been appointed to a position on the head office management staff, and will leave by the second express to-day for Wellington. On the eve of his departure Mr Stevens was presented with a leather suitcase from the staffs at Dunedin and Port Chalmers. Upwards of 50 businessmen and representatives of sporting and other organisations met yesterday afternoon (reports out Timaru correspondent) to bid farewell to Mr A. P. Greenfield, who will leave Timaru to-day for Dunedin. Numerous speakers paid a tribute to Mr Greenfield as a businessman, citizen and sportsman, and wished him every success in the future. Presentations were made to Mr Greenfield and his wife as a mark of the esteem in which they were held by a wide circle of friends. The Union Airways liner Kororo left the Taieri airport at 8.15 yesterday morning for Christchurch, Blenheim and Palmerston North with Mrs Maurice James and child for Christchurch, Mr E. A. A. Thorne and Dean Cruickshank for Wellington, and Messrs H. Cassey, J. Jackson Purdie, T. Aitken and B. Tukuafu for Palmerston North. The Korimako arrived at the Taieri airport from the north at 12.50 with Mr J. Napier from Nelson.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23002, 3 October 1936, Page 14
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