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Southland Times, Issue 24860, 28 September 1942, Page 4

PERSONAL

Chaplain Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Thomson arrived in Invercargill by the express on Saturday night. He will return north tomorrow. Mr A. Wachner, Mayor of Invercargill, was elected patron of the Southland Anglers’ Club at the annual meeting of the club on Saturday night. Mr E. A. Cameron, Wendonside, chairman of the Southland Council of Primary Production, returned to Invercargill by the midday express on Saturday after attending a meeting of the National Council of Primary Production held at Wellington. Messrs W. J. A. McGregor and A. L. Adamson (Invercargill), H. Smith (Waikaka Valley), W. G. Mac Kay (Otama) and S. Sim (Crookston) returned south by the mid-day express from Dunedin on Saturday after . attending a conference with the Minister of Primary Production for War Purposes (the Hon. W. J. Polson) on Friday night. Mr W. G. Baird, Public Trustee for Wellington, arrived in Invercargill during the week-end on a short business trip. At the morning service of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church yesterday Mr J. A. Bell was inducted as an elder of the church by the minister, the Rev. C. J. Tocker. Messrs H. C. Mathew, W. J. A. McGregor and C. S. Gordon, who were previously inducted as elders were ordained. Mr R. W. Murray was re-elected president of the Southland High School Old Boys’ Association at the annual meeting of the association on Saturday night. Mr R. A. Anderson, a member of the reporting staff of The Southland Daily News, who has accepted a position in the mercantile marine service, will leave Invercargill today to join the service. He was bidden farewell by the literary staff at an informal gathering on Saturday and Mr P. Robertson, chief reporter, made a presentation and wished Mr Anderson good luck at sea. The illness of Mr W. Dunnage, a life member of the Southland Anglers’ Club, was referred to by members at the annual meeting of the club on Saturday night, and good wishes were expressed for his recovery. Dr and Mrs Stanley Brown, Don street, have received advice that their son, Sergeant Rutherford Brown, who is a prisoner of war in Germany, has been selected for music teaching to blind prisoners of war at a camp for members of the British forces. Sergeant Brown states in a recent letter that he is well.