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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21504, 17 November 1939, Page 6

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Colonel F. T. Bowerbank, Director of Medical Services, is visiting Christchurch.

Inspector T. Shanahan, who was formerly in charge of the South Canterbury police district, and who has been transferred to New Plymouth, left Tlniaru for the north yesterday.

Mr E. J. Keay, formerly bailiff at the Timaru Magistrate’s Court, who has been appointed crief at the Supreme Court, Christchurch, left yesterday to take up his new duties.

Commander A. B. Fanshawe, R.N., second naval member, has been appointed honorary Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General according to a Gazette notice.

Constable M. Conway, who has been stationed at Kaiapol for the last eight years, has been transferred to Dunedin as acting-sergeant. Constable Ward, of Timaru, will replace Constable Conway at Kaiapol.

The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Morkane, administrator of-St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Dunedin, has returned from a nine months' holiday tour of England, America, and Europe.

Dr. O. H. Frankel, plant geneticist for the New Zealand Wheat Research Institute, who has been attending the Seventh International Congress of Genetics in Edinburgh and has also been engaged in research abroad, is on his way back.

Advice has been received that Mr J. H. B. Scholefield, secretary of the Aorangi Tennis Club and member of the South Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association Management Committee, has been appointed Secretary of the Southland Lawn Tennis Association.

Tributes to his work and worth as a minister of the church were paid to the Rev. G. Knowles Smith, of Bluff, at the annual Methodist Synod at Gore. Because of failing sight Mr Smith has been compelled to apply to become a supernumerary of the church after service of 50 years in the ministry, and a family record through his father, grandfather and himself of a total of 141 years of ministerial service.