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Southland Times, Issue 24574, 24 October 1941, Page 4

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Mr Justice Blair will preside at the quarterly session of the Supreme Court in Invercargill, which opens next Tuesday. The Minister of Industries and Commerce (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) will visit Invercargill on November 6 to address the annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. Messrs S. R. Lowden, F. G. Hall-Jones and S. M. Macalister, and Drs J. G. Macdonald and G. J. Yule visited Dunedin yesterday to attend a Rotary luncheon at which the Canadian High Commissioner in New Zealand (Dr W. A. Riddell) was the speaker. Later, they went on to Timaru, where a discussion on federal union was held last night. Messrs J. L. Menzies, acting Australian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, and L. J. Schmitt, secretary of the Department of Industries and Commerce, will be among the official visitors to the annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, which will be held in Invercargill in November. Mr E. A. Hogg, formerly of Rotorua, has been appointed assistant master at the Bluff public school. Mr D. J. Wesney was appointed yesterday by the council of the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce an official delegate of the chamber to the annual conference of the Associated Chambers of New Zealand, which is to be held in Invercargill on November 6 and 7. Invercargill will be allowed four official delegates. The others are Messrs J. N. Armour (president), J. W. Wood (vice-president) and C. B. Tapley. ■Dr W. A. Riddell, Canadian High Commissioner in New Zealand, arrived in Dunedin from the north by air on Wednesday. He gave an address on Canada’s war effort to the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday night and yesterday he visited several manufacturing concerns. He was also the guest of the chamber on a sight-seeing trip round the city. Mr A. S. Bain, of the staff of the Oamaru branch of the National Bank of New Zealand, has been transferred to the bank’s Otautau branch. Before leaving Oamaru, he received a presentation with the good wishes of the staff, and he was also the recipient of a gift from St. Paul’s Lawn Tennis Club.

Mr T. Thorburn, Invercargill representative of Lane, Walker and Rudkin, who leaves soon for camp, was met yesterday morning in H. and J. Smith’s tea rooms by members of the retail, drapery and clothing trades. Mr J. S. Robbie, who acted as chairman, made a presentation of a filled wallet to Mr Thorburn and wished him the best of luck. Several other representatives also spoke and Mr Thorburn replied. The record of 60 years’ service with The Otago Daily Timfc of the manager of the job printing department was recognized in a presentation to Mr H. F. Harris in which all departments of the newspaper participated. Mr Harris was known throughout the Dominion for his long connection with Rugby. He is a life member of the New Zealand and Otago Rugby Unions and was New Zealand selector and joint manager of the Maori team which toured England and France in 1926.