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Mr T. Venn, of Geraldine, left Auckland on Wednesday, en route for England.
Mr J. Gillanders, of Greendale, was appointed Dominion president of the New Zealand Milking Shorthorn Association at the annual meeting held in Hamilton.
Mr A. McNeil, Mr J. Wyn-Irwin, Mr J. P. Hawke, and Mr F. A. Bates, who were staying at the Balmoral, have returned to Christchurch.
The Committee of the Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Association yesterday passed a motion of sympathy with Mr Geo. Knowles in the death of his mother.
The Minister for Defence (the Hon. J. G. Cobbe) completed his engagements in Christchurch and returned to Wellington by the ferry steamer on Thursday night. Major-General W. L. H. SinclairBurgess, the General Officer Commanding the New Zealand Military Forces, who has accompanied the Minister for Defence (the Hon. J. G. Cobbe) on his tour of the South Island, has returned to Wellington. The Rev. S. Varcoe Cocks, young people's I hector of the New South Wales Conference, will visit the Dominion in July, and will hold meetings in the chief centres in the interests of Christian Endeavour work of the Methodist Church. The Rev. Samuel Lawry has been elected chairman of the Methodist Connexional Fire Insurance Board, and the Re E. Drake chairman of the Supernumerary Fund Board. ThE Rev M. A. Rugby Pratt has been reelected chai-man of the Deaconess Institution Committee. The friends of Mr Stan Hanan will be pleased to learn that he has written from Invercargill, where he Is recuperating. that he has so far recovered from his indisposition. that he expects to be able to resume his duties at the Dis|)cnsary by the end of the present month. Mr George William Ord, formerly manager of the Australian Bank of Commerce, which was recently merged with the Bank of New South Wales, died recently in Sydney, aged 71 years. Mr Ord joined the Australian Joint Stock Bank, which was later acquired by the Australian Bank of Commerce, m 1878, and retired in 1928.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19512, 10 June 1933, Page 8
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