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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21702, 10 July 1940, Page 6

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Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Craven, M.C., has relinquished his duties as medical superintendent of the Auckland Hospital and has left Auckland to rejoin the Royal Army Medical Corps. At a recent meeting of the New Zealand Producers' Marketing Association, Ltd., Mr S. R. Muff, chairman of directors of the Orari Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., was re-elected as a director to represent Canterbury and Otago.

Lieutenant J. D. Hutchison of Christchurch, has been posted to the New Zealand temporary staff with the rank of captain. He lias been appointed D.A.A.G., Southern Military District headquarters, and will take up his duties to-day.

Captain A. Rathbone, of the firm of John Mill and Company, and Mr D. Copland, president of the Dunedin Watersiders’ Union, have been appointed waterside controller and wharf superintendent respectively for Otago and Southland with headquarters at Dunedin.

Archdeacon J. A. Jermyn, vicar of Greymouth, will be acting vicar of the Miramar-Seatoun parish until the vicar, the Rev. C. E. Willis, who has been called up for service as a chaplain to the forces, returns. The Rev. S. J. Atkins, of First Church, Frankton, has tendered his resignation to the Waikato Presbytery, because of ill-health.

At its first meeting since the death of Sir Walter Carncross, the Legislative Council yesterday carried a fitting resolution of appreciation of his services, which Included 21 years as Speaker of the Council in just on 50 years of Parliamentary life, and sympathy with his relatives. Tributes were paid by a representative number of Members from Auckland to Southland, and the Council adjourned as a mark of respect.