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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20692, 30 December 1938, Page 4

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The Hon. A. Hamilton is attending Mie summer school which is being held at Gore for youth workers of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Mr R. Shepard, of Hamilton, is visiting Wanganui. Mr C. L. Mac Diarmid, of Hamilton, is visiting Thames. Mr R. English, of Hamilton, is in Dunedin. Mr A. Bryant, who has been visiting Matangi, returned to Auckland today. Mr John Farrell was in Hamilton yesterday making arrangements for the production of ’the Frank Neil revue, “Why be Serious?” Messrs S. Booth, J. Lipscombe, D. Stern (Auckland), and G. Langford (Lower Hutt), are at the Hamilton Hotel. Mr J. W. Norrie, manager at Napier for the South British Insurance Company, Limited, will leave in January on transfer to Dunedin. Mr J. D. Anderson, Wanganui manager for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, for the past 15 years, will retire on superannuation to-morrow. Dr. C. E. Hercus, dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Otago, who has been awarded a Carnegie Corporation visitors’ grant to study university and medical school administration and recent developments in biological sciences, will leave Wellington to-morrow for London by the Port Huon. The Very Rev. Archimandrite Antonious Mobayed, who has charge of the St. Nicholas Syrian Orthodox Church, Melbourne, was in Dunedin to conduct Christmas services at the only church of the order in the Dominion, St. Michael's, Musselburgh. He will visit the other main centres, meeting members of the church and enstilling their co-operation in securing buildings for worship.