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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21178, 27 October 1938, Page 6

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Rear-Admiral W. B. Mackenzie, R.N. (retired), is a passenger for New Zealand by the Orient liner Orion, which left England on October 8.

The Mayor, Mr W. G. Tweedy and Cr W. H. Hall, are to represent the Timaru Borough Council at the Municipal Conference to be held at Dunedin hi March next.

Captain L. W. Andrew, V.C., New Zealand Staff Corps, has relinquished the appointment of adjutant, Second Field Ambulance and Adjutant, First Battalion, the Wellington Regiment, and has been appointed assistant adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Central Military District.

Mr G. G. Chisholm, registrar of the Supreme Court aud clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Napier, who has been authorised to exercise temporary jurisdiction as a magistrate until the end of November, is relieving at Christchurch during the absence of Mr H. A. Young, S.M., as chairman of the Post and Telegraph Appeal Board.

"The thanks of the management committee are again due to the council’s representatives in England. Messrs A. H. H. Gilligan, L. E. L. Donne and A. Sims,” states the annual report of the New Zealand Cricket Council. "The amount of time and trouble taken by these gentlemen in representing us at headquarters is evidence of their interest hi the game In general and New Zealand’s cricket in particular.

Mr L. V. Bryant, senior house master at Waitaki Boys’ High School, has arrived in London. He is on leave for one year from his school to take up a Carnegie Fellowship in education at the Institute of Education, London University. On his way from New Zealand he did some mountaineering in tha Canadian Rockies, Including an ascent of the Mount Louis, one of the most difficult of Canadian Rock climbs, and h? also toured extensively in the United States.

The New Zealand Cricket Council, in its annual report, records with regret the deaths of old New Zealand cricketers—Messrs L. T. Cobcroft, J. N. Fowke, and S. F. Wilson. The Mr Cobcroft, as a player and later as a selector, and the late Mr Wilson as an administrator, all served the game faithfully and well. "It is fitting also, to mention the passing of one of the great figures of the game, the late Hugh Trumble," the report states. "He was well known In New Zealand, and we can recall with gratitude the very great Interest he took in our game."