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Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 58, 11 March 1944, Page 4

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Mr. G. R. Stirling, Youth Director, id a visitor to Palmerston North for the weekend. Mr. H. G. Miller, M.A., Librarian of Victoria University College, will be a visitor to Palmerston North during the weekend. He is to speak at the opening rally of the Young Anglican Movement tomorrow afternoon. A motion of sympathy with Mr. D. Watson, of Pohangina, former engineer to the council, and Mrs. Watson, in the death of their sou, Flight-Sergt. K. J. Watson, on active service, was passed at a meeting of the Pohangina ounty Council. .Sympathy with Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Carter, of Palmerston North, in the loss of their son, Corporal S. Carter, killed in action, was expressed at yesterday’s meeting of the Manawatu-Oroua River Board, of which organisation Mr. Carter is a member. Rev. Lyndon Usmar, who recently concluded his ministry at the Campbell Street Church of Christ, Palmerston North, has been appointed a chaplain to the Forces. Chaplain-Captain Usmar at an early date is to proceed to an overseas camp in the North Island. His Lordship the Bishop of Wellington, the Right Reverend H. St. Bartoe Holland, will be a visitor to Palmerston North on Sunday. At 4 p.m. he will speak in All Saints’ Hall at the inaugural rally of the Young Anglican Movement and preach in All Saints' Church at Evensong at 7 p.m. The nomination of Air. Kenneth Stuart Patton as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States in New Zealand was announced yesterday by the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser), who said Mr. Patton had had a long career in the United States Foreign Service. He had held a number of important consular and diplomatic appointments In Europe and over the past twenty years had been stationed in Paris, Belgrade, Leipzig, Batavia, Amsterdam and Singapore. He will come to New Zealand from Calcutta where lie has been ConsulGeneral for the past two years. Mr. Patton was born at Salem, Virginia, in 18.82 and educated in the University of Virginia, the Paris Sorbonne and the John Hopkins University.