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Mr R. McCallum, M.P. for Wairau, is in Hamilton for the week-end.
Revs. F. Harty and A. H. Acheson, of Hamilton, are attending the Anglican synod at Auckland. Rev. R. L. Connolly, vicar of S. Mark's, Te Aroha, is in Auckland attending the Anglican Synod.
Mr James Glendenning, of Te Aroha, has been appointed traffic inspector for the Cambridge Borough Council.
Mr John J. Rodgerson has been appointed %s inspector of scenic reserves in the Auckland district.
Ven. Archdeacon Cowie left on Wednesday for Auckland to attend the Anglican Synod. Re will return to Hamilton at mid-day to-day, leaving again for Auckland on .Monday. It is reported, says the Manawatu Daily Times, that Mr G. B. Sykcs, the member for Masterton, intends retiring from politics at the expiry of the present Parliament.
Mr C. du Meyer, the only member of the Springbok team who remained in New Zealand, has been making a tour of the thermal district and the Waikato.
Drs. T. C. Fraser and H. Budd, vicepresidents of the Hamilton Kennel Club, and Mr W. Ritchie, are attending the New Zealand Fox Terrier Club parade at Auckland to-day. Rev. John Monro Gibson, M.A., D.D., LL.D., minister of St. John's Wood Presbyterian Church, London, since 1880, is dead. He was the author of many works on religious themes.—London cable. Mr J. S. Wilson has arrived in Cambridge from Whakatane to take up the agency for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., in the Cambridge district.
The death is announced from Oarnaru of Mr William Gardner, senior, aged 76, who went there with his parents in the early days of settlement. He has been actively engaged in pastoral pursuits, and was well-known as a breeder of merino sheep. A London cablegram states that Sir Joseph and Lady Ward will leave Southampton to-day (Saturday) for New York, coming thence to New Zealand via San Francisco, They may return to England early in the summer.
Sir John Salmond, who has been selected by the Government to represent New Zealand at the forthcoming Disarmament Conference at Washington, will leave by the Niagara from Auckland on Tuesday next. He will be accompanied by his associate, Mr J. M. Gamble.
At the Baptist Conference, at Wangsnui, yesterday, officers were elected as follows: —President, Rev. W. 11. Hinton, vice-president, Mr J. A. Parn ett (Christcnurch); conference sermon preacher, Rev. A. S. Wilson; deputy, Rev. Horous; editor of Baptist. Rev. .1. J. North; auditor, Mr Charles Collins; solicitor, Mr 0. Mazengarb.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14776, 15 October 1921, Page 5
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