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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26272, 2 October 1946, Page 4

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The Conciliation Commissioner. Mr A. L Rigg, will return to Christchurch tomorrow. He will preside over sittings of the Conciliation Council in Dunedin on November 4, 5 and 6. _ . Mr G. L. Jackson, late of Christchurch, has taken up his new appointment as branch manager of Armstrong and Sprmgliall. Ltd., in Dunedin. It was decided at the meeting of the presbytery of Dunedin last night to nominate the Rev. J. D. Smith of Mount Eclen, as moderator of the General AseTheJ Minister of Agriculture, Mr Roberts announced last night that the Gov-ernor-General. Sir Bernard Freyberg. had appointed Mr David Allan, of Wellington, to be a Government representative on the Meat Producers’ Board, replacing Mr A. E. Harding. The Mayor (Mv Cameron), the town clerk (Mr R A. Johnston) and Messrs M R. Skipworth, Carl V. Smith, and Arthur Barnett, as members of the executive, of the Centennial Association, will leave to-day for Invercargill on centennial busin£The Sextant Priv.e awarded by the Royal Society of Arts on the results of the Training Board examinations of the British mercantile marine has been won by Mr Richard Samuel Webster, fourth officer of the New Zealand Shipping Company's vessel Essex. Mr Webster, who is an old boy of the Waitaki High School, won the New Zeaiand Shipping Company’s scholarship in 1941. Appreciation of the work done for music in Dunedin by Mr C. F. Watson, who will shortly leave on transfer to Westport, was expressed at the Dunedin Choral Society’s concert in the Town Hall last night by the Mayor (Mr Cameron), who after outlining Mr Watson's services for the Choral Society since he joined its ranks in 1928, extended best wishes for his success in his new position on the West Coast. When the resignation of Mr George Christie as conductor of the Green Island Municipal Band was mentioned at the meeting of the Green Island Borough Council last night, the Mayor (Mr J. Boomer) paid a tribute to Mr Christie’s services to the band over a long period, and the valuable work he had done during the war years .in holding a depleted membership together. The Dunedin Choral Society’s newlyappointed conductor. Mr Charles F. Collins, is expected to sail from England for New Zealand on October 11 and is clue to arrive in Dunedin towards the end of November This information w'as conveyed to the audience at the society's concert in the Town Hail last night by the Mayor (Mr Cameron), who said that the projected arrival of an overseas musician to take up permanent residence in Dunedin was a notable event which had not previously occurred for many years. Passengers who left by air for the north yesterday were Mr and Mrs A. B. Keast and Mr C. W. Hewett for Christchurch. Mr J. Roy. Mrs J. Jennings. M: H. D. Ramsay. Mr and Mrs W. R. Brinsley, Mr A. Ryburn, Mr J. Hutchinson, and Mr D T. King and Miss R. Vallance for Wellington. Miss E. Howes. Mr T. M. Wyber, and Mrs L. Stewart for Auckland. Those who arrived from the north were: Miss R. W. White. Mrs F. Hudson, Mr and Mrs N. J. Wills. Mrs Oakley, Mrs I. Penn. Mr A. Harvey. Mrs Noble-Jones, Mr W Johnston. Mr G. D. Rutter. Mr Skinner. Mr T. Smith. Mi's C. D. Gray. Miss P. Barlow, and Miss E. A. Wallace.