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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11504, 28 September 1915, Page 6

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~ CHAMPIONSHIP OFF. j 1 [Pm Phessi Associaxxok.J i WELLINGTON, Soptomber 28. < At a. meeting of the. IN' ew Zealand Chess : Association it was ffecidetf not. to hold the j usual chess championship tournament this ( year owiug to tae> war. The rainfall to date for the present yew, as recorded at the Chris tehurch Observatory, is 11.117, as against 14.988 for the corresponding period last y year. c At a meeting of the Sfc Albans School s Committee last evening, in conjunc- c tion with members of tho teaching I staff, it was decided to hold the an- f nual excursion at Itangiora on Decern- t ber 4. j; Another member of the D.I.C. sin If, c fa Sir Arthur Marsack, has just left j Christchuroh for tho Palmerstou North Camp, having offered his services for _ the front in connection with the ainhu- ) lanco section of the Army Medical i Corps. Mr Marsack is tho twenty- r fourth member of tho D.I.C. staff who a has been accepted for service. t A sitting of tho Supreme Courb will c be held in Chmtchurch on Tuesday to v tear a compensation case in which the c trustees of the Murchison Estate claim F £BOOO from tho Government on ac- ' count of 'and taken for tho power scheme at Lake Coleridge. Mr A. r Boyle is assessor for tho clninmnts and IMi- It. H. Ostler, of Auckland, for tho y Govemmcnir. j ,\f trees <J.o not "cueh their c j'nJ! 1t..-;,'Ju til; •.!•••} -00 year.* c old. v