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Southland Times, Issue 24760, 3 June 1942, Page 4

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Mr W. W. Mulholland, Dominion president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, will arrive in Invercargill tomorrow night to attend the Southland conference of the union on Friday. Mr S. R. Lowden, Invercargill manager of John Chambers and Son, Ltd., is visiting Wellington. Mr J. D. Gilmore and Mr D. W. Stalker were appointed members of the executive of the Southland Provincial Patriotic Council at a meeting of the executive Mr G. Stevenson, of Woodlands, and Mr G. R. Herron, of Balfour, will leave for Christchurch by the express this morning to represent Southland at a conference of linen flax growers tomorrow.

Mr H. D. Ritchie, of the Social Security Department, has arrived in Gore to take over the duties of district agent

Mr J. A. Robinson, whose death occurred at Dunedin last week, was born in Melbourne. He was well known in commercial circles in Dunedin and Invercargill and .he was secretary of the Otago branch of the New Zealand Society of Accountants. He was a keen Freemason, and was district treasurer of the Grand Lodge. In his younger days Mr Robinson was a prominent hockey player, and also a playing member of the Dunedin Cricket Club.

Mr and Mrs N. Macintosh, Quarry Hills, have received official advice that their eldest son, Sergeant-Pilot James Macintosh, has been reported missing, probably a prisoner of war, in Java. Sergeant-Pilot Macintosh served in the New Zealand Fighter Squadron throughout the Singapore campaign and later in Java.