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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 47, 25 February 1941, Page 4

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Mr. G. C. Wadsworth has been appointed Company Commander of the Home Guard at Waitotara.

Mr. H. E. Frederick, Raetihi, has been re-elected chairman of the Waimarino branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. Mr. J. Williams, Auckland, has been appointed research lecturer in industrial organisation in the University of Otago. Mr. W. S. Metcalf has been appointed assistant lecturer in chemistry in the same university. Mr. A. Macnab, Wanganui, West Coast delegate on the Electoral Committee of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, will attend a meeting of delegates, in Wellington, on Thursday, when various matters concerning the prozen meat export trade will be discussed. Detective H. A. Hay, Wanganui, has received notification of his transfer to New Plymouth. His place in Wanganui will be taken by Detective A. Jenvey, New Plymouth. Detective Hay has been stationed in Wanganui for about 18 months, and came here from Wellington. Constable W. G. Adsett, Christchurch, who has been transferred to Wanganui after two and a-half years at the Sydenham Police Station, was met by fellow-officers in Sydenham and presented with a bevelled mirror. The presentation was made by Sergeant R. Henry, and other speakers were Constables B. W. Wotton and R. F. Leigh. Company-Sergeant-Major R. Sherlock, of the First Echelon of the N.Z.E.F. in Egypt, has been promoted to Second-Lieutenant after having undergone a course of instruction in an English Army officers' training school there. Second-Lieu-tenant Sherlock is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Sherlock, Durie Hill, Wanganui.