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Evening Star, Issue 23680, 13 September 1940, Page 6

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The Right (Rev, W. A. R. Fitchett, Bishop of Dunedin, visited Lumsden on Wednesday and conducted a confirmation service at Balfour that night. Lieutenant-colonel F, K. Turnbull has been appointed officer commanding the brigade units at the Trentham Mobilisation Gamp, - -according ’./to. 5 a ‘ Gazette ’ notice published last night, in place of Lieutenant-colonel L. H. Jardine, who has resumed command of the Taranaki (Regiment for intensive training. The directors of the South British Insurance Company Ltd. have appointed Mr W. E. Bush to succeed Mr J. J. Kingston as manager of the Auckland branch of the company. Mr Bush has been chief clerk in the branch office for the past 24 years. At the annual meeting of the Dunedin Cricket Club last night Mr G. A. Wycherley referred to the recent death of Mrs Torrance, mother of the club’s president (Mr R. C. Torrance). Mrs Torrance, who had lived to a ripe old age, had, said Mr Wycherley, endeared herself to all members of the club, of which she had been a loyal supporter and a regular attendant at the official opening for many seasons past. Members stood as a mark of respect to the memory of their late friend, and a motion of sympathy with her relatives was passed- ■' . „ • , ~ Staying at the City Hotel are Mr R. T. Harold, Mr T. G. Williams, Mr A. S. Mitchell (Wellington). . Registrations at Wain s Hotel include Mr J. R. Davoren. Mr H. R. Dorreen (Auckland), Mr L. Greenberg (Wellington), Mr M. K. Lawson (Christchurch). , _, , Arrivals at the Carlton Hotel are Mr D. Goldfinch (Auckland) Mr J. E. Learning (Wellington). Mr R. J. Hobbs, Mr A. M'Kenzie. Mr M. Marrmer (Christchurch), Sir Louis and Lady Barnett (Hampden), Mrs A. E. Ruff (Alexandra), Mr T. Burt (Invercargill). -