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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21089, 15 July 1938, Page 8

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Major R. G. Byron, military secretary to the Governor-General, Viscount Galway, left by the Aorangi on a holiday visit to Suva. Mr W. E. Bennett, of the New Plymouth staff of the Customs Department, has been transferred on promotion to Oatnaru. Mr J. Newman, Collector of Customs at Westport, has been transferred on promotion to the Wellington office of the Department. Mr Keith Read, of the Dunedin branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia, has received notice of his transfer to Wellington. The Rev. D. J. Morriston Thomas arrived in Timaru yesterday from Chicago to take charge of Chalmers Presbyterian Church tor the next ten weeks. After a telephone call to Sydney on Wednesday night, where he is at present in the course of a tour with his Maori choir, Bishop Bennett, of Aotearoa, was elected president of the New Zealand Alliance. Mr Winston F. Monk, 8.A., Oriel College, Oxford, 1934 Rhodes Scholar, has been awarded the Belt Senior Research Scholarship for the academic year 1938-39. He is a son of Mr and Mrs F. Monk, Kaikoura.

Captain A. S. Dalgleish, formerly master of the Union Company's motor freighter Waiana, left Auckland by the Aorangi on his way to England, where he Is to take command of the company’s new freighter Waipori for her maiden voyage to New Zealand from Newcastle-on-Tyne.

After 40 years of service in the New Zealand Police Force, Superintendent S. Till is to begin his retiring leave on August 14, and on November 14 he will officially retire on superannuation. During the last eight years he has had charge of the Auckland police district. The bulk of his experience has been on the administrative side.