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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23321, 13 October 1937, Page 10

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Sir Robert Anderson was a passenger by the through express from Invercargill yesterday en route to a visit to Sydney. Mr A. le H. Hoyles was a passenger for Wellington by the through express yesterday from Invercargill. Mr A. R. M'Elwain, representative of Messrs Fullers, Ltd., arrived in Dunedin yesterday to make arrangements for the forthcoming season of the Montague Show. The Auckland Presbytery has decided to nominate the Rev. T. E. Riddle as moderator of the assembly for the year 1938-39 (reports a Press Association telegram). Mr Riddle has for the past 25 years represented the church as a missionary in the Punjab, India. He will return to the Dominion on furlough next year. The Rev. A. H. Acheson and Mrs Acheson, of Waimate, accompanied by Mrs W. J. Chamberlain, of Holywood, County Down, Ireland, fire staying in Geneva (says our London correspondent, writing on September 22). Mr Acheson is attached to the League of Nations as temporary collaborator. Return passages to New Zealand have been booked by the Arawa, leaving Southampton on October 29. The Union Airways liner Korimako left the Taieri airport at 8.15 yesterday morning for Christchurch, Blenheim and Palmerston North with Mr J. Cane for Palmerston North. The Kotuku arrived from the north- at 1 p.m. with Mr H. J. Ramsay and Miss A. J. Ainge from Palmerston North, Mr B. E. Wrigley from Wellington, Messrs C. G. Scrimgeour and A. White from Christchurch. i

At a meeting of representatives on the Otago and Southland Fire and Accident Underwriters’ Association, held on Monday, the chairman of the association, Mr F. V. Drake, handed to Mr G. A. Russell, of the Yorkshire Insurance Company, Ltd., a suitably inscribed mantelpiece clock as a token of appreciation of services rendered to the association. The thanks and good wishes expressed by the chairman were supplemented by many of the representatives present and heartily endorsed by all.