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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 243, 14 October 1938, Page 6

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The Rev. D. N. Pryor, formerly of Leeston, has accepted an assistantship to the Rev. G. M. Nicol, of Sheffield, England. His work will be centred in Chesterfield. Mr. R. H. McKenzie was on Tuesday re-elected chairman of directors of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy, Company, Limited. Mt. W. i Marshall was re-elected deputy-chair-man. Dr. C. B. Du Pertuis, a Dutch en-' tomologist, arrived at Auckland by the Tasman after spending some time at Port Vila, in the New Hebrides, studying tropical agriculture. Mr. B. H. Walker, a teacher at the Durban Boys’ High School, South Africa, arrived at Auckland with Mrs. Walker on Wednesday to spend seven weeks touring and fishing in New Zealand. Mr. Ronald O. Sinclair, an Aucklander who was appointed to the British Colonial Service in 1930, and who has held administrative and judicial appointments in Nigeria, has been promoted, transferred to Northern Rhodesia and appointed a resident magistrate. Mr. W. J. Dempsey, of Wanganui, will sail by the Awatea to-night for Australia, where he will attend the Australian Funeral Directors’ conference, which is to be held in Melbourne from October 24 to October 27. Mr Dempsey intends to see the Melbourne Cup race and later go on to Sydney. He will be away about five weeks. He will be accompanied by his wife and. Miss Norma (Pat) Dempsey. The Rev. W. Bower Black, minister of St. David’s Presbyterian Church, Auckland, was o.n Tuesday night granted by the Auckland Presbytery leave of absence for nine months from next January to enable him to visit the Old Country. The Presbytery heartily approved of the arrangements for the vacancy to be supplied by the Rev. Dr. R. C. Gillie, of London and Bath, and appointed the Very Rev. G. Budd as interim moderator. The death occurred at Christchurch yesterday of Miss Elizabeth Mary Harkness, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Harkness, formerly of Wanganui, now resident in Christchurch. Miss Harkness was educated at Wanganui and moved to Christchurch with her parents early this year. She was for several years a member of the St. Paul’s Bible Class afid the choir at St. Paul’s Church, Wanganui. Mr. W. Caiman, of Wanganui, is an uncle of the late Miss Harkness. Mr. H. Leslie-Melville, a former New Zealander who has spent many years in Southern Rhodesia as a mining engineer, arrived at Auckland by the Tasman on Tuesday to revisit the Dominion for the first time in 45 years. He is accompanied by his wife. Mr. Leslie-Melville’s father, the late Mr. D. S. Melville, was general manager of the Union Bank of Australia, Ltd., at Wellington, from 1885 to 1891, and Mr. Leslie-Melville was educated at Wellington and Wanganui.