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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23964, 3 June 1943, Page 4

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Mr J. K. McAlpine was elected chairman of the Lyttelton Harbour Board at its annual meeting yesterday. Mr W. S. Mac Gibbon was elected deputy-chairman. Appreciation of the services of the retiring chairman of the Lyttelton Harbour Board (Mr H. HoldernessJ was expressed. The Mayor of Christchurch (Mr E. H. Andrews) will attend an executive meeting of the Municipal Association in Wellington next Wednesday. Cr. M. E. Lyons and the town clerk (Mr H. S. Feast) left Christchurch for Wellington yesterday to transact City Council business. The Dean of Christchurch (the Very Rev. A. K. Warren) left Christchurch recently to attend a world conference of ecclesiastical leaders in New York. Information concerning the matters to be considered at the conference is not yet available, but it is probable that post-war problems associated with religion, education economics and related subjects will be discussed. Dean Warren has been chosen by the New Zealand Council of Churches to represent all denominations in the Dominion with the exception of the Roman Catholic Church. The conference. which • has been convened by the American equivalent of the New Zealand Council of Churches will be attended by church dignitaries from Great Britain, the British Empire, and other Allied nations. While Dean Warren is away from Christchurch. Canon Stephen Parr will act as sub-dean, and the dean’s duties will be shared by other members of the clergy. Mr A. J. Blakely, a returned member of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, was welcomed to the Canterbury Provincial Patriotic Council yesterday as a representative of the Christchurch Returned Services’ Association. He was added to the standing committee to advise on the views of servicemen. Mr A. E. Reynolds, registrar of the Supreme Court at Hamilton, has received notice of his transfer to a similar position in Dunedin. Mr Reynolds was clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Dunedin until about eight years ago, when he was transferred to Wellington, later going to Hamilton. Mr H. M. Rushworth, former M.P. for the Bay of Islands electorate, has been elected chairman of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union. Mr G. A. 'Lightband has been commissioned in the Royal Engineers, according to advice received by his father, Mr Harold Lightband, of Christ, church. Mr Lightband, who graduated Bachelor of Engineering at Canterbury University College, went to England in 1038, and until recently was engaged on defence works at Plymouth and in the north of England. Mr H. J. Macartney was re-elected chairman of the Ellesmere Land Drainage Board at a meeting held yesterday. The advertising and commercial staffs of the Christchurch Press Company, Ltd., met last evening to bid farewell to the advertising clerk, Mr L. H. Halliday, who is leaving the company’s service to go into camp. A presentation on behalf of the staffs was made by the secretary (Mr R. V. White), and appreciative references to Mr Halliday’s long and efficient service, and to his many excellent qualities were made by Mr White, and by the advertising manager (Mr F. H. Walls). Mr Halliday suitably responded. |