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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27039, 25 March 1949, Page 6

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Ministerial The Minister of Defence. Mr Jones, will arrive in Dunedin by air this morning. He will return to Wellington on Monday afternoon. Mr Justice Hay will return from Nelson on Saturday to preside over sittings of the Supreme Court in Dunedin on Monday. Mr A. J. Phillips, representative of the George Tollerton Variety Show, is at present in Dunedin to make arrangements for the coming tour. . . _ Mr R. B. Bannerman was nominated for the position of district vice-president for Otago and Southland on the Dominion Executive of the RSA at a meeting of the Gore Executive of the association this week. Mr C. B Barrowclough, chairman of the Otago Land Valuation Committee, and president of the Otago District Law Society, is confined to his home through illness During Mr Barrowclough’s absence. Mr W. M Taylor, deputy chairman, is presiding at the sittings of the Land Valuation Committee. At the annual meeting of the Otago Rugby Football Union last night the president, Mr R W. S. Botting. referred to the passing of Messrs H. Harris, a life member of the Otago and New Zealand Unions and J. S. Hislop, and Dr Garfield Crawford, who were members of the committee in the past; Mr George Thomson, a former representative player; Mr W. T. Parata, who had given outstanding service to the game throughout New Zealand; and Mr S. D. Minn, who, as a journalist, had been closely associated with Rugby. Motions of sympathy were carried. The Director-general of Agriculture, Mr E. J. Fawcett, arrived in Wanaka last night to begin a tour of Otago and Southland His visit is primarily to meet officers of the Department of Agriculture in this area, but he will also take the opportunity to inspect developments in farming in the south. Mr Fawcett will visit Clyde and Alexandra to-day, but, because of the state of the roads, he will be unable to call at Queenstown to-day as planned.