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Star (Christchurch), Issue 20044, 6 September 1920, Page 6

Mr J. B. Merrett left on a business tnt> to Melbourne on Saturday by' the I nloona. He intends *to investigate the sugar-beet industry in Gippsland. At the close of the Christchurch Amatour Operatic Company’s production of Hie Geisha” at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, Mr Frank Macdonald, on behalf of the performers presented Mr Tom Pollard (who had given his sendees as producer voluntarily) with a travelling bag. Mr Pollard suitably responded. Constable D. Treacy, of Lceston, who has served forty-one years in the Police Force, retired on superannuation on Tuesday last, and has been granted three months’ leave on full pay. Ho joined the Armed Constabulary in 187t) and the police in 1891, and served at Dunedin, Port Chalmers, 'Arrowtown • Clinton and Lceston. A few months ago Air Treacy cquireu some sheep country in the North Island. Until a I successor is appointed the Lceston I police district will ,bc under the con--1 trol of Constable Mori arty, of Southbridge.