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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27499, 20 September 1950, Page 8

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Vice-regal ,

The Governor-General, Sir Bernard Freyberg, will arrive in Dunedin on the afternoon of October 9. He will be present at a private showing of pictures of the Otago Art Society that night, and will officiate at a civil investiture in the Concert Chamber at 4 p.m. on October 10.

Reference to the deaths of Mr A. W. Alloo, Mr Crosby Morris and Dr E. K. Edie was made at a committee meeting of the Otago Cricket Association last night. Professor W. E. Adams will leave this morning by air for Melbourne as external examiner in anatomy to the University of Melbourne Medical School.

Resolutions of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr . Crosby Morris and Mr Herbert Price were passed at the meeting of the executive of Federated Farmers of Otago yesterday. Members stood in silence as a mark of respect. Reference to their deaths was also made at a meeting of the council of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon. Bpth were former members of the council. Mr T. E. Holmes, the present superintendent of police in Christchurch, who is due to go on retiring leave next month, has been on sick leave for some weeks. Since 1917 Mr Holmes has served in the detective branch at Palmerston North, Wellington, Greymouth, Christchurch and Dunedin. He returned to Christchurch as chief detective in 1944 and remained in charge of that branch until he succeeded the present commissioner, Mr J. Bruce Young, as superintendent at Christchurch in May of this year. Captain R. D. Yetton, Area XI staff officer, has received advice of his transfer to army headquarters, Wellington, as staff captain, administration. He will leave Dunedin on Friday. Captain A. C. Halliday will become Area XI staff officer, and will also take over from Captain Yetton the administration of the Otago University Medical Company, the Casualty Clearing Station, and the 3rd Ambulance Dental Unit. Captain Yetton came to Dunedin two years ago on his return from Japan, where he served with J Force. The Christchurch superintendent of the telegraph branch of the Post and Telegraph Department, Mr P. W. Donaldson, will retire at the end of this month after 40 years’ service. Mr Donaldson joined the department at Gore in 1908, and after serving in the First World War he was appointed telegraph supervisor at Timaru in 1925. He was telephone manager at Dunedin in 1938 and later superintendent of the telegraph branch at Dunedin in 1944. He has been superintendent at Christchurch since 1948.