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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23006, 8 October 1936, Page 10

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Ministerial The freedom of the Borough of Kidderminster will be conferred on the Minister of Finance (Mr W. Nash) when he visits England. The Worcester Journal states (reports a Press Association telegram from New Plymouth) that the Kidderminster Town Council has decided to confer the honour. Mr Nash was born at Kidderminster, and received his early education at St. John's School. The only other living freemen of Kidderminster are Mr Stanley Baldwin, Mr S. M. Bruce, and Mr J. G. Coates. Mr S. Ritchie, conciliation commissioner, left yesterday afternoon for Invercargill. Mr J. W. Smeaton was a passenger by the mid-day express yesterday on his way to Wellington. Mr Fred Waite, M.L.C., was a passenger for Wellington by the mid-day express yesterday. The Rev. W. H. Howes. 8.A., of Otautau, was unanimously nominated as moderator for the General Assembly for 1937 at a meeting of the Wanganui Presbyterv. Mr C. L. Calvert and Mr E. J. Anderson left for Wellington yesterday morning to attend a sitting of the Court of Appeal. Sub-inspector John Carroll, of detective headquarters. Wellington, who is on annual leave, arrived from the north by the first express yesterday. Miss Checha Eipe. who has been studying at the home science extension department of the Otago University, left by the north express yesterday on the first stage of her return to India. Mr H. D. Skinner accompanied by Mrs Skinner and son. returned to Dunedin on Tuesday night after a 10months' tour of Great Britain and the Continent. On the trip from Italy to Australia they travelled on the Ormonde.

Mr P. R. Angus, locomotive superintendent, Mr J, G. Bertinshaw, assistant chief engineer, and Mr J. Binsted, locomotive engineer, who have been attending the railway inquiry into the derailment at Evansdale last week, ieft for Wellington by yesterday's first express. At the session of the Anglican Synod yesterday afternoon, Bishop Fitchett made reference to the death, at Invercargill, of Mr C. Gray, for many years organist at St. John's Church. Mr Gray, the bishop said, had built up a choir, the reputation of which reached far beyond Invercargill, and synod appreciated his work. A motion of condolence was carried.

The second and third prize-winners in the Percy Grainger Competition for a typical New Zealand musical composition have both been taken by Dunedin players. Miss Dorothy Johnston, who took her Bachelor of Music degree at the Otago University, has been awarded the second prize and Miss Alice Wilson, who also took her Bachelor of Music degree at the Otago University, has won the third prize. Owing to the extraordinary vacancy created on the King Edward Technical School Board by the death of Mr L. A. Walker, Mr G. T. Baker and Mr James. M. Patrick have been nominated for the position. An election will take place on October 17. Before the conference of the Federated Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire adjourned for lunch yesterday, Mrs Hooper, on behalf of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce, presented the president, Viscount Elibank, with an attache case, a beautiful piece of inlaid work of various Queensland timbers, as a memento of the congress. Lord Elibank acknowledged the gift gratefully, recalling a trip to the tablelands inland from Cairns, whence the timbers had come.

A letter indicating his impending retirement as reporter attending the meetings as " representative of the Mataura Ensign after 45£ years was received at a meeting of the Presbytery of Mataura from Mr Andrew Martin. Members referred to Mr Martin's great record and a sub-committee consisting of the Revs. W. J. Hannah, S. Nixon, and R. D. M'Ewan was set up to arrange for suitable recognition of it. The Union Airways liner Korimako left the Taieri airport at 8.15 yesterday morning for Christchurch, Blenheim, and Palmerston North with Mr H. J. Smither for Christchurch, Mrs Elliott and infant, and Mr W. R. Sellar for Wellington and Mrs M. A. MacLeod for Palmerston North. The Kotuku arrived from the north at 1 p.m. with Dr Cora Hind and Mr G. Black from Wellington and Messrs R. J. Simpson and Hefferson from Christchurch.

Delegates to the Conference of the British Empire Chambers of Commerce, which has concluded, left Wellington last night for Lyttelton for official tours of the South Island, after which they will return north. The women attached to the party yesterday afternoon visited the Truby King-Karitane Hospital.