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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 457, 19 May 1932, Page 3

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MINISTERIAL. The Hon E. A. Ransom, Minister of Lands, has returned to W ellington from Dannevirke. The Hon A. Hamilton, PostmasterGeneral, left Invercargill for Wellington this morning. The Minister of Health (the Hon J. A. Young) returned to Wellington from the north on Tuesday. The Hon C. E. Macmillan, Minister of Mines and Agriculture, will leave for the West Coast district next Monday to investigate the coal and gold mining situation. He will visit Greymouth, Hokitika, Okarito and Waiho, also going to Barrytown near Greymouth, where he will attend to a question of considerable local interest, namely' whether certain lands may be used for gold mining or whether they should be reserved for agricultural purposes. From the West Coast the Minister will go to Christchurch and then to Dunedin, where he will open the Otago Winter Show on May 31. He will return to Wellington on June 2. Messrs Max Steinberg (Auckland) and F. H. Allen (Dunedin) are staying at the New City Hotel. Messrs A. F. Hudson (Sydney) and J. S. Duke (Wellington) are guests at the' United Service Hotel. Messrs H. L. Barker (Ashburton) and A. G. Macdonald (Wellington) are staying at the Clarendon Hotel. Messrs F. H. Allen (Dunedin), Matt Steinberg (Auckland) and E. Casey (Wellington) are guests at the New City Hotel. Mr P. Hodge, manager of the Union Steam Ship Company at Oamaru, returned to New Zealand by the-Marama after a holiday visit to Sydney. Mr H. M’Kenzie, secretary of the Post and Telegraph Employees’ Association, left for Wellington last evening. Messrs E. Casey, chief engineer of New Zealand Railways, E. T. Spidy, superintendent of workshops, and J. R. Robertson, a member of the Railway Appeal Board, returned from the south yesterday. Mr J. R. M’Kenzie, Mr D. Jones, chairman of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, and Captain C. Sinclair Thomson, Second Naval member of the New Zealand Naval Board, arrived from Wellington this morning. Dr J. D. Salmond, Presbyterian Youth Director, arrived in Christchurch last night, and is leaving tonight for Melbourne to represent the Presbyterian Church at the meeting of the Lessons Committee, which is responsible for the preparation of the

syllabus of lessons used in the majority of Presbyterian and Methodist Sunday Schools in the Dominion. The Rev E. P. Blamires, who will represent the Methodist Church on the same committee, has already left for Australia.