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Evening Star, Issue 21742, 9 June 1934, Page 15

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Major R. W. Fenton, of the Government Publicity Department, now managing the Film Craft Studio, left Dunedin this morning for Wellington. Mr Alfred Ibbotson, making a business trip to Christchurch, left by train this morning. Mr A. L. Wall, general manager for New Zealand for the Siuart-Lloyd Company, was a passenger for Wellington by the 11.35 train to-day. He leaves for England on June 26. To attend a sitting of the Royal Commission, that is investigating the position of the dairy industry, Messrs A. P. Fleming and F. Waite left Dunedin for Wellington to-day. , Mr F. W. Platts, S.M., of Thames district, has had his term further extended till September 30, when he will definitely retire. It is understood that Mr J. H. Luxford, present judge of Samoa, will succeed him.—Thames Press Association.

Constable C. Maynard, who was stationed here for nine, years and is now at Invercargill,, is spending a portion of his holiday leave m Dunedin. A Press Association cable message from Sydney states that the Rev. P. W. Stephenson, M.A., 8.D., has been appointed headmaster of Trinity Grammar School, Summer Hill and Strathfield,_ in succession to the Rev. Canon Hilliard, who Will leave towards the end of _ the - year to take up his duties as Bishop of Nelson.

A London Press Association cablegram states that Mrs E. A. Kelly, of Christchurch, has been awarded the Paris Salon silver medal for , her portrait of Edith Day. The retirement of Mr Donald Canjeron from the service of the ‘ Otago Daily. Times ’ Company was the occasion of a meeting of the editorial and reporting staffs yesterday afternoon. It was an official farewell that was something more than official, for in his forty-three years’ service as a reporter and relief sub-editor, Mr Cameron performed‘his duties agreeably as well as expertly, making personal /friends of the men with, whom he worked, and earning the respect of the public bodies whose meetings he reported. The editor (Mr James Hutchison) presented as a gift from the staffs an antique brass and crystal fruit stand, and in his remarks said that Mr Cameron’s work was always accurate, that he carried on uncomplainingly and faithfully, and in general was recognised as a model reporter. Those remarks are herewith fully endorsed by those members of the ‘ Evening Star ’ staff who remember his work whilst in the ‘Star.’ employ and have since been in his company on important assignments. - In replying yesterday Mr Cameron .mentioned that in the early days referred to by Mr Hutchison ho had been associated on the ‘ Evening Herald ’ with the poet, Thomas Bracken, and had reported men who had become famous in the history of the province and of New Zealand, among them being Sir Julius Vogel, Sir George Grey, and Mr James Macandrew.