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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 255, 28 October 1939, Page 6

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Mr. A. S. Burgess was re-elected president, at last night’s annual meeting of the Automobile Association (Wanganui). The Rev. E. Nicholls returned Wanganui yesterday from Wellington, where he attended an executive meeting of the Baptist Union of New Zealand. Inspector J. Powell, of the New Plymouth police district, will retire at the ' end of next month. After five years in the Royal Irish Constabulary, Mr. * Powell joined the New Zealand police • force 36 years ago. i Dr. A. P. M. Fleming, president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, England, who was to ha.c visited New Zealand next February, I has coneelled his trip because of the i outbreak of war, according to advice i received by the secretary in Wellington. Mr. R. A. McKinnon, ot the staff ot the Bank ot Australasia, Hamilton, who has been transferred to the . bank's branch at Taihape, will leave Hamilton during the week-end, and will take up his new duties next week. , Appreciation of lhe services of Mr. ' T. Dix, clerk-engineer of the Wattotara County Council, in planting 1 trees on roads throughout the district was voiced at last night's annual meeting of the Automobile Association (Wanganui..