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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12761, 3 October 1919, Page 6

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His Excellency the Governor-General arrived in Christchurch bv the 5.8 p.m. express yesterday, and wont on to Wellington.

The Mayor (Dr Thacker, M.P.), has postponed his departure for Wellington, and will not go north before tomorrow night or possibly next Tuesday night.

Messrs W. S. Helem and J. More have been nominated for the vacancy on the Hampstead Town Board caused by the resignation of Mr R. Loy. An election will be held in due course.

Mr W. H. E. M anklyn, who has just relinquished the secretaryship of the Canterbury Jockey Club, was yesterday elected an honorarv life member of the club. Mr A. Boyle, the president, said that during Mr Wanklyn’s term of twenty-eight years the club had taken great strides, and from year to year the work had become more onerous, especially in regard to the working of the totalisator. This had been brought to a state of perfection and it was run at a lower cost than was the case with any other club in the Dominion. Mr Wanklyn’s services had been of benefit to tbe sport and had been performed to the faction of the committee.

Mr J. H. Smith, who is servering his connection with the clerical staff of the Ashburton railway station, and is also leaving the service, was met by the staff on Wednesday evening and presented with an illuminated address. The stationmaster (Mr J. T. Bell) mad© the presentation, and wished Mr Smith a happy time in his well-earned retirement. Mr Smith has - served forty years with the Department. He had been nine years on superannuation until the thinning of the ranks of the railway for war service, when he offered his services to the Department ‘ for the period of the war, and has been oyer two years at Ashburton,