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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25458, 12 February 1944, Page 4

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The Rev. Professor J. A. Allan, of Knox College, is visiting Christchurch, where he is to lecture at the refresher course for clergy of the Christchurch Diocese. The members of the Arbitration Court —Mr Justice Tyndall and Messrs W. Cecil Prime and A. L. Monteith—left for Christchurch yesterday by the express. Mr E. G. Payton, who has been on the City Library staff for the past six years and a-half, has resigned in order to enter the Baptist College. The General Committee of the City Council has recommended the appointment of Mr Ernest F. Hastie to the position of traffic inspector-ranger. Mr Hastie recently returned from service overseas. Sir William Goodman, chief engineer and general manager of the Adelaide Tramway Trust, is expected to arrive in Dunedin by plane on Monday. He has been commissioned by the Dunedin City Council to undertake an engineering survey of the city transport system. Mr Lloyd Powell, the examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, will arrive in Dunedin on March 8 to conduct the practical examinations. The acting city librarian reports that the five members of the library staff who sat for Part I of the general course m library work, an examination set by the New Zealand Library Association, were successful in passing the examination. Passengers who left for the north by the airliner yesterday were Mr E. H. Hollins, Mrs I. Smith, Mrs D. Strain, Mrs M. Jamieson, Mr Todd, Mrs O. T. Shiel, and Miss C. Shiel for Wellington, Mr D. Murdoch for Palmerston North, and Mr D R. Coles for Auckland. Passengers who arrived by the afternoon plane were Mrs J. K. Wood and Lieutenant Thompson from Auckland, Mr F. E. Dunning, Mr Edmond, Mr C. W. Birch, Mr D. V. Brown, Mrs E. Canning, and Miss H. Hopkinson from Wellington, and Misses M. and K. Curran from Christchurch. The Rev. A. W. Silvester, Methodist missionary in the Solomon Islands, will arrive in Dunedin on Monday evening, and will return north on Thursday. Mr Silvester was the only remaining Methodist minister at Vella Lavella Island when the island was invaded by the Japanese, and was on the island for several months after the invasion. He is now spending a furlough in the Dominion. Prior to his missionary labours, he was an active worker in the St. Kilda Methodist Church.