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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22508, 16 September 1938, Page 10

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Sir Hugh Acland returned to Christchurch by the steamer express from the North Island yesterday morning.

Colonel A. E, Loach was. among the. passengers from Wellington to arrive in Christchurch yesterday morning.

Messrs C. M. Turrell, H. S. E. Turner, and P. Borthwick were arrivals from the north yesterday morning.

Mr C. M. Wynne, representative of a number of Chicago manufacturers of motor-trucks, arrived in. Christchurch from Wellington yesterday and will remain here till to-morrow. He is the vice-president and a director of the Chicago Association of Commerce. v Professor Alexander Findlay, of the University of Aberdeen, has contracted a severe chill and is obliged to postpone for the present ail his Christchurch engagements.

Sympathy with the relatives of Archbishop Julius, Messrs R. Nairn, J. H. Kirk, and T. Tomlinson, Sir Charles Clifford, and Mrs F. W. Johnston, who have died recently, was expressed at a meeting last night of the council of the Automobile Association (Canterbury). Members of the staff of the Union Steam Ship Company’s Dunedin ■ branch met yesterday to bid farewell to Mr A. A. Andrews, who has been transferred to Apia to take charge of the company’s branch there. Mr Andrews has been chief freight clerk at Dunedin for a considerable period, and he will be succeeded by. Mr C. F. Watson, at present assistant in the freight department.—Press Association. A call from the Southbridge-Dunsandel charge to the Rev. L. G. B. Whitehead, of Wallacetowh; Southland, has been supported by the Christchurch Presbytery and will be sent to the Southland Presbytery. The charge was recently vacated by the Rev. R. R. Adair, who has gone to America