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Southland Times, Issue 24244, 30 September 1940, Page 4

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Mr Alex Derbie left for Wellington last night on a short business visit. Mr J. C. Carbines, South Island manager of the New Zealand Herd Improvement Association, is visiting Southland on official business.

Mr J. S. Dick, manager of the Invercargill branch of the South Island Motor Union Mutual Insurance Association, Mr D. A. Dunn, a member of the executive, and Mr F. W. G. Miller, secretary of the Automobile Association (Southland) have returned to Invercargill after attending the annual conference of the South Island Motor Union in Christchurch.

Mr G. E. Mitchell, officer in charge of the railways goods branch, Invercargill, and Mr R. Watkins, . business agent, returned on Friday night from Wellington, where they had been on departmental business. Mr Keith R. Reed returned to Wellington last night after visiting his relations in Invercargill.

Mr C. A. Burgess has his seat on the council of the New Zealand Golf Association, as he will go into camp this week.

Before the proceedings began at the ladies’ night of the Invercargill Orphans’ Club on Saturday a motion of sympathy was passed with Mr ' J. E. Taylor, a member of the club, in the death of his wife.

The Rev. B. C. Nottage, of the New Hebrides Presbyterian Mission, at present on furlough in New Zealand, has forwarded his resignation to the Mission ~ Committee for health reasons.

Mr B. A. Mahoney, engineer of the Thames Borough Council, arrived in Invercargill on a holiday visit by the Express on Saturday night. Mr Mahoney is well known in Southland as a former Southland representative Rugby player. He was a member of the 1929 Southland touring team which won the Ranfurly Shield from Wairarapa at Carterton, and in recent years he was one of Southland’s leading referees.

Messrs W. Fraser, of the Lands and Survey Department, B. W. Butler, of the Public Works Department, and John France, of the Southland Farmers’ Cooperative Association Ltd., left Invercargill by Saturday morning’s express en route to Weraroa to take up duty with the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Before his departure Mr Butler was met by his colleagues and presented with a gift. Good wishes for his future were expressed by various members who complimented Mr Butler on his capabilities as a member of the staff.

The Rev. J. G. Heath, of Christchurch, has been appointed vicar of Papakura in succession to the Rev. H. Sinclair, who was recently appointed to Takapuna. Mr Heath was educated at King’s College, took his theological course at St. John’s College and later spent five years in Melanesia.

Lieutenant-Colonel W. Alex. Ebbs, newly-appointed chief secretary of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, will arrive in Invercargill on Thursday afternoon from Dunedin. In the evening he will conduct a public meeting in the Salvation Army Citadel and will return north the following day. Lieu-tenant-Colonel Ebbs filled field and staff appointments in England before his transfer to France, where he took command of the Paris-Nord Division. Then followed a number of years in Belgium, where he was the aide-de-camp to the territorial commander, and then five years in Italy as territorial leader. Transferred to the United States in 1929, he commanded the metropolitan and Hudson River divisions and later, for nearly four years, the western Pennsylvania division, with headquarters at Pittsburgh. He was a director of the Rotary Club of Pittsburgh and the Federation of Social Agencies of Pittsburgh and Alleghany County.