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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23918, 20 September 1939, Page 8

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Mr Peter Neilson. M.P.. and Messrs F. Waite and M. Connelly, M.L.C.’s. left for Wellington by the through express yesterday. Mr Peter McSkimming was a passenger for Christchurch by the through express yesterday. Mr John V. Kean and Mr W. D. Finlayson left for Wellington by the through express yesterday to join the New Zealand Air Force. Mr G. H. Anderson was a passenger by the through express yesterday for Auckland, where he intends to take up his residence. Mr I. S. Cantrell has been appointed the representative of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce on the council of the Dunedin Travel Club. Mr W. R. Crocker, an officer of the League of Nations, was a through passenger from Sydney for San Francisco by the Mariposa, which called at Auckland on Monday. He is returning to his duties in Geneva. Mr A. Mcßean, formerly of Auckland, who for four years has been head of the English section of the Rosenberg International College, Switzerland, has returned to New Zealand on a holiday visit. Mr F. E. Baume, formerly editor ot the Sunday Sun. Sydney, passed through Auckland by the Mariposa on Monday on his way to Great Britain, where he will act as editor of European services for a chain of six Australian newspapers. The Dunedin Chamber of Commerce last evening appointed Mr H. P. West to a position on the council of the chamber Mr West recently retired from the office of secretary to the chamber. At a meeting of the executive of the Council of the Plunket Society yesterday morning, the-death of Sir William Hunt was referred to with deep regret The executive placed on record its appreciation of the distinguished services that Sir William Hunt had given to the society, and its sense of irreparable' loss in his passing. As a member ol the Advisory Board of the society, and chairman of the Karilane Products Society he gave unstinted service to the cause of mother and child By his generous gift of his home at Bainfield. Waikiwi, he made it possible for the Invercargill branch to establish a Karitane Hospital to serve the Southland Province. The sympathy of the society is extended to his widow and his family in their bereavement.