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Southland Times, Issue 24874, 14 October 1942, Page 4

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Lieutenant I. P. Milne, New Zealand Dental Corps, arrived in Invercargill on Monday on furlough. Surgeon-Lieutenant D. M. Page arrived in Invercargill by yesterday afternoon’s express. He is staying with his parents, Mr and Mrs J. Page, Beatrice street. • Mr R. J. A. McConville, supervisor at the Winton Post Office, is acting as postmaster there during the absence through illness of Mr H. O. Barker. Advice has been received that Sergeant Frank Beadle, formerly of Invercargill, has been promoted to the rank of warrant officer. The promotion of Lieutenant P. E. Hazledine husband of Mrs E. I. Hazledine, Waikiwi, to the rank of captain is gazetted. Captain Hazledine is a prisoner of war. Sergeant-Major T. J. Banks, who was formerly connected with the 20th Independent Company and was later regimental sergeant-major at the recruit training depot, has been appointed regimental sergeant-major of the Awarua battalion of the Home Guard. He took over his new duties yesterday. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr S. G. Holland, met members of the Otago and Southland Divisional Committee of the National Party at a luncheon on Monday afternoon, and later was the guest of Mr and Mrs P. Barling at their home at Macandrew Bay, being accompanied by the president of the Dunedin Manufacturers’ Association, Mr J. C. H. Somerville. On Monday night Mr Holland addressed members of the Manufacturers’ Association at their annual meeting. He left for Wellington by air yesterday morning.