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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21409, 27 February 1935, Page 10

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* Dr. P. E. Allison will leave to-dav to attend the medical conference at Dunedin. Sir Robert Anderson arrived In Christchurch from Wellington ve* terday morning. Dr. C. H. Upham, Lyttelton is at present an inmate of St. George's Hospital. Rear-Admiral R. E. Byrd arrived from Wellington by the Rangatira yesterday morning. He was accompanied by Mrs Byrd. Sir Joseph Smith arrived from the north yesterday morning, and went to Timaru where he will attend the Rotary Conference. The Hon. T. O'Byrne, M.L.C., 0 f Invercargill, passed through Christchurch on his way north last evening.

Senior-Sergeant J. Fox, of the central police station, who has been on annual leave returned from the south last evening. He will resume duty to-day. Sir Clutha Mackenzie, director of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, was a passenger from Wellington by the Rangatira yesterday morning. Mr H. Reid has left for his home, Condobolin, Australia, after spending a brief holiday in New Zealand. Mr J. M. A. Ilott arrived from Wellington yesterday morning, and passed through Christchurch on hij way to cttend the Rotary Conference at Timaru. Mr J. D. Ormond, jun., is announced as a candidate for the Waipawa seat at the next elections. The present member is Mr 'A. E. Jull.— Press Association. Mr W. E. Olds has been appointed manager of the Christchurch branch of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company. He will be in charge of the company's South Island business.

Messrs D. I. Macdonald (secretary to the Canterbury Employers' Association), F. N. Lawrence and G. M. Hall left for Wellington last evening to attend the adjourned sitting of the Conciliation Council which is dealing with the Dominion engineers' dispute. The Mayor of Christchurch, Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P., left for Wellington last evening. He will return to preside at the civic farewell to Lord and Lady Bledisloe in Christchurch on Thursday, and will leave for "Wellington again in the evening. Mr J. Henshaw, of the , Texas Company (Australasia), Ltd., has been appointed distributing agent for Texaco products and sole representative of the company in South Canterbury. Mr Henshaw will continue to make his headquarters at Timaru. Mr C. B. Hearn, general manager of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, Ltd., of Australia, with headquarters in Melbourne, is at present visiting New Zealand, and will arrive in Christchurch from the south to-morrow He will be accompanied by the New Zealand manager, Colonel R. B. Ashe. Mr H. C. Hartley, who is at present agency superintendent of the Christchurch branch of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company, has been notified of his transfer to Dunedin, where, he will be local manager in charge of the company's business in Otago and Southland. Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell, the World Chief Scout, arrived in Christchurch yesterday from ' the north, accompanied by Colonel Granville Walton as staff officer. Lord Baden-Powell and his party will leave this morning for the West Coast. They will return to Christchurch on March 9, when the Chief Scout will pay his official visit to the city.

Occasion was taken at the official opening of the conference of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association last night to make a presentation to Sir H. Lindo Ferguson, professor of ophthalmology and Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Otago, who has been associated with the Otago Medical School for 50 years. The presentation consisted of an illuminated address containing the signatures of about 300 medical practitioners in all parts of the Dominion and further afield. In addition, Dr. Hardie Neil (Auckland), on behalf of the signatories, made a substantial donation to augment the dean's fund for medical research, and suggested that the fund should in future be. known as the Sir Lindo Ferguson Fund.— Press Association.