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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23515, 1 June 1938, Page 10

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Ministerial The Minister of Education (Mr Peter Fraser) is expected to visit Dunedin about the middle of this month. The Minister of Lands (Mr F. Langstone) will arrive in Dunedin to-mor-row afternoon, and will return north on Monday. Mr Langstone will open the Winter Show on Friday. Sir Robert Anderson, of Inyercargill, is at present visiting Dunedin. Mr J. Waters was a passenger by the through express yesterday for Wellington, where he will be engaged on pharmacy business. Mr J. W. Scurr was a passenger for Christchurch by the mid-day express yesterday. A Press Association message from Palmerston North states that Commander A. G. Gerrand has been appointed service manager of Union Airways. His headquarters will continue to be at Palmerston North. Mr R. E. Armstrong, secretary for Messrs J. Inglis Wright, Ltd.. Wellington, arrived on a short visit to Dunedin by the express from the north yesterday afternoon. The Union Airways liner Karoro left the Taieri airport at 8.15 yesterday morning for Christchurch, Blenheim and Palmerston North, with Mr G. Benson for Christchurch. The southbound liner Kotuku arrived at 2.45 p.m. from the north with Mr N. J. Webster and Dr J. Stephenson froin Wellington, and Miss N. Miller and Mr E. C. Hartridge from Christchurch. Miss Sheila Calder has returned to Dunedin from Christchurch, where she was an outstanding contestant at the Competitions festival. Among her successes in the elocutionary sections were four first places, for the test piece, the prepared speech, and the character and humorous sketches, and in the dancing sections she was first in the open class for barefoot dance and third in the toe dancing.

Mr S. S. Millington, comptroller of stores in the Railways Department, has retired on superannuation (states a Press Association message from Wellington), and is succeeded by Mr p m. Muir, who has been assistantcomptroller for the past five years. Making the announcement, the Minister of Railways (Mr D. G. Sullivan) extended the thanks of the Government, and himself as Minister, for the excellent work done by Mr Millington as comptroller, and also his good work as chairman of the Advisory Committee to the Stores Control Board. The congratulations of the Otago Cricket Association to its president (Mr A. H. Allen) on his election as Mayor of Dunedin wore expressed at a meeting of the executive of the association last evening. It was mentioned that this honour for the president of the association was not without precedent, since the late Mr J. J. Clark had also held the office of Mayor while he was president of the, association. Mr G. A. Martin expressed the hopes of members that Mr and Mrs Allen would have a happy term of office.

After two years’ service in the Royal Air Force in England, in which time he has earned rapid promotion, Mr C. A. Turner, formerly of New Plymouth, has been selected from all the New Zealanders in England for the position of navigation and signal instructor in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. He is only 22 years of age. Advice of his appointment has been received -in a letter to his parents, Mr and Mrs J O Turner. It has yet to be officially confirmed, and is, it is understood. subject to his proving satisfactory in a special year’s course of instruction in England. Mr I. G. Garden. M.A., Dip. Ed., a member of the staff of the Otago Boys’ High School, who is at in Europe on leave, has returned to England after passing Six months in France. During that time (says our London correspondent, writing on May 14) he took a course of study in the French language, and succeeded in winning the diplome superieur of the Alliance Francaise, Paris. Before returning to England, he spent two weeks in Italy, just at the time of the Austrian Anschluss. Till about the end of June Mr Garden will be working at the Institute of Education. London, and visiting secondary schools. On his way back to New Zealand, Mr Garden hopes to spend a few weeks in the United States.