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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 68, 21 March 1940, Page 4

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Mr. D. W. Madden has been reelected unopposed as president of the I St. Patrick’s College Old Boys’ Association. i Captain W. E. Parry, of H.M.S. I Achilles, and Mrs. Parry, who have I been visiting the Rotorua and Taupo i districts, have returned to Auckland. | Mr. E. S. Taylor, Amberley, North | Canterbury, has been elected presi- ; dent of the Canterbury Agricultural . and Pastoral Association in succession ; to Mr. W. O. Rennie. Mr. Hector McKay, formerly of the Wellington firm of Crichton and Mc- | Kay, architects, is visiting Wellington. I Mr. McKay is now a resident of Engj land, but spends half his time travel- , ling. He is to live in Australia during the coming winter. Mr. F. W. Foster, Conservator or | Forests at Hokitika, has received’ I notice of transfer to the head office of the State Forest Service, Wellington. Mr. Foster has been appointed to the position of silviculturist and working plans officer and will leave for Wellington soon. Mr. B. N. T. Blake, of Auckland, who has been appointed senior inspector of schools in the Wanganui Education Board district, was welcomed at the monthly meeting of the board yesterday, by the chairman, Mr. E. F. Hemingway. The Wanganui Education Board, at its meeting yesterday, passed a motion of sympahty with the relatives of the late Mr. G. H. Bennett, Palmerston North. Mr, Bennett was a member of the Wanganui Board from ±906 until 1916. Mr. C. M. Strouts, honorary treasurer of the Wanganui A. and F. Association and of the Wanganui Bowling Club, is making a good recovery and hopes to be out of hospital this week. Pleasure was expressed at the annual meeting of the A. and P. Association yesterday that he would soon be back to normal health.