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Mr J. L. McG. Watson was re-elected Chief of the St. Andrew’s Scottish Society at the annual meeting. Mr Watson has held this office since the inception of the society 27 years ago. Mr H. K. Emanuel, of Wellington, arrived in Invercargill by the express last night. Colonel J. I. Chrystall, formerly of Christchurch, has been promoted to brigadier and posted to the 6th Cavalry Brigade in Palestine. Now 53 years of age, he joined the 7th Hussars as a trooper in 1912 and was commissioned and posted to the 13th Hussars in 1914. After the Great War he was for a time engaged in police work in Egypt, and then returned to his old regiment with the rank of major. For several years past he has been in charge of the British force in the Trans-Jordan.
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Southland Times, Issue 24181, 18 July 1940, Page 6
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