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Southland Times, Issue 20616, 15 October 1928, Page 6

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MINISTERIAL. The Prime Minister, the Right Hon. J. G. Coates, will arrive in Invercargill on Friday and will deliver an address in the Popular Picture Theatre the same evening. He intends speaking at Otautau on Saturday evening. The condition of Sir Charles Skerrett ij very satisfactory, states a Wellington tele* gram. The Rev. R. J. Patterson, of Belfast, Ireland, travelled from Invercargill to Oamaru by the express last evening. Mr N. A. Fraser, late of the Southland Times literary staff and now of the Auckland Weekly News, is at present visiting Invercargill. Sir Henry Moorhouse, who arrived in Auckland last week after investigating, on behalf of the Colonial Office, the recent murders in the Solomon Islands, will shortly visit Sydney for a few months. Owing to continued ill-health, and acting on medical advice, Mr A. H. Grinling has found it necessary to relinquish his position as editor of the Outlook, a position which he has occupied for between 26 and 27 yeaia Mr T. C. Brash, secretary of the New Zealand Dairy Control Board, who has been on a brief visit to Southland arranging details in connection with the shipping of dairv produce from Bluff, left for the north by the express last night. A memorial to the late Mrs T. J. S. Daniel, one of the earliest and most enthusiastic workers in connection with the Georgetown Hall, was held in the hall yesterday afternoon. Mr A. W. Jones presided and the Rev. D. K. Fisher performed the unveiling ceremony and conducted a short service. Mr L. Robb (grass lands expert for Nitram, Ltd., a British syndicate running nitrogenous manures) is expected to arrive in Dunedin on Wednesday. He is co op. ing in New Zealand with the Department of Agriculture, and will tour throughout Otago and Southland. The death occurred in Auckland on Tuesday morning of Mr Roderick Paterson, aged 72. Mr Paterson was one of the pioneers of the marine engineering profession, coming to New Zealand as an engineer on the Port Melbourne, one of the earliest vessels employed by the Union Company in the intercolonial trade. Mr Paterson remained > many years with the company, becoming superintendent engineer. For several years past he had been living in retirement.