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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16816, 19 August 1922, Page 9

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Mr John Caughley. Director of Education. left Christchurch for Wellington last evening. The permanent appointment of Mr A. W. Waters as Official Assignee at Christchurch is announced. Mr D. M’Callum has succeeded to the Mailborough seat on the Wellington Education Board in place of Mr R M’Callum. M.P. Mr W. T. MoTpeth, chief draughtsman of the Lauds and Survey Depart merit at Wellington. has been appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands at Hokitika. Pastor W r . D. More. of the Church of Christ, Dominion Road, Auckland, has accepted an invitation to labour with the Church of Christ, Moorhouse Avenue. His ministry commences early in September. Mr G. W. Armitnge. chairman of the Canterbury -Education Board, and Mr E. H. Andrews, a former chairman, will represent tho Board at a Conference of Education Boards in Wellington on September 27. Tho death occurred at Balclutha recently of Mr Donald Mitchell, at the age of eighty-six years. Deceased came to New Zealand in 1857. sixtyfire years ago. and was a farmer at Waiignloa for over forty years. Mr C. T. Obrenstein who will lecture on Christian Science on Sunday, i; a member of the .Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. United States. Mr Obrenstein is a native of Bohemia, of Jewish descent Ho is? au American citizen. He will proceed to Au strata after lecturing for the New Zealand Christian Scientists. The Dean of Nelson (Dr G. E. Weeks) has been appointed head master of Trinity Grammar School, Sydney. Trinity is a secondary school belonging to the Anglican Church in Sydney, with a staff of ten masters and drawing pupils from places so distant as Samoa. Fiji and Java. Dr Weeks will begin his new duties earlv in 1923. He took up his appointments in Nelson at the end of 1915. having been previously vicar at Lowestoft (England).