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The Hon. Mr Justice Kennedy will leave Invercargill by the express this morning for Dunedin. Lieutenant L. A. Blackmore, formerly of Invercargill, has been promoted to the rank of captain.
Mr T. H. Langford, of Christchurch, transport zoning controller for the South Island, has arranged to visit Invercargill shortly to confer with the Southland Transport Control Committee.
Mr F. G. Hall-Jones, New Zealand District Governor-elect of Rotary, Dr J. G. Macdonald, president-elect of the Invercargill Rotary Club, and Mr G. G. Osborne, acting secretary of the Invercargill Club, are attending the South Island Rotary assembly in Timaru. Mr Hall-Janes will go north to attend the North Island assembly also.
Cr A. W. Jones has been appointed to act with the Mayor, Mr A. Wachner, on the Invercargill Zoning Committee which will have the duty of arranging zoning for the delivery of goods and supplies in the city. Mr C. Wilson, city abattoir manager, recently informed the City Council that he was due to retire next December. However, arrangements have now been made for Mr Wilson to continue in the position until March 31, 1943, when the matter will again he reviewed.
Mr E. A. Cameron, of Wendonside, who is a South Island representative on the National Council of Primary Production, left on Monday for Wellington to attend a meeting of the council. With Mr A. L. Adamson, secretary of the Southland Primary Production Council, Mr Cameron, who is chairman of the latter body, will attend at Timaru next Tuesday a conference on lime supplies. Crs W. H. Boyes and R. T. Parsons have been appointed by the City Council as its representatives on a local advisory committee set up under the National Service Department to deal with the question of man-power for the tramways. The other members of the committee will Ke the district manpower officer, Mr S. C. Bingham, and two representatives of the employees.
For health reasons Mr G. A. Hughes has resigned from his position as minutes and correspondence secretary of the Southland Provincial Patriotic Council. Mr Hughes, who was a member of the City Council staff, was appointed to the position recently on the resignation of Mrs G. C. Dunn. He is leaving shortly to live in Nelson.
Advice has been received by Mrs H. W. Egerton, Gorge Road, that her husband, Sergeant H. W. Egerton, who is serving in the Royal Air Force, is safe and well.
Wing-Commander M. V. Blake, who has been awarded the D. 5.0., is a son of Mr C. M. Blake, head master of the Heathcote School, Christchurch. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in January last year. He was then a controller of operations with a fighter squadron on the south coast of England and had shot down five enemy aircraft; Wing-Commander Blake was nominated from Canterbury University College for a Rhodes Scholarship m 1936. He was educated at Christchurch Boys’ High School, Wellington College, and the Southland Boys’ High School. He was a champion pole-vaulter in New Zealand, and has been _ the Royal Air Force champion ever since he joined in 1937.
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Southland Times, Issue 24826, 19 August 1942, Page 4
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