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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1938, Page 4

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The Rt Hon J. G. Coates left Wellington for Auckland yesterday by air. The Rt Hon M. J. Savage, Prime Minister, left Wellington for the north by the Limited express last evening. Mr W. J. Morrell has been reappointed chancellor of the University of Otago, and Mr L. D. Ritchie vicechancellor.

Mr S. Henson, of Masterton, will represent the Wairarapa Rugby Union at the Manawatu Rugby Union’s jubilee celebrations at Palmerston North tonight. The Hon. W. Nash, Minister of Finance, left Wellington today for Wanganui to take part in special services there tomorrow in connection with the cathedral fund appeal. He will return to Wellington on Monday. Mr R. E. Deidrich, of the Public Trust Office, Wanganui, has been appointed assistant Attorney-General in Fiji. Mr Deidrich was a member of New Zealand univirsity Rugby football teams at various times between 1929 and 1938. Mr. G. A. Maddison, mayor of Hastings, who is visiting Australia, was unanimously re-elected chairman of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board. The deputy-chairman said Mr Maddison had never been in the least parochial and no other chairman of the board had given such service. Dr H. Smith, who has been appointed medical officer of health for the central district, Auckland, arrived at Wellington by the Ruahirie from England yesterday. Dr. Smith was for nine years superintendent of hospitals under the Municipal Council, Shanghai. For the last year he has been health for Northampton. The death occurred at Auckland, following an operation of Mr John Tombleson, a well-known sheepfarmer aged 71, says a Gisborne Press Association message. He was a member of several local bodies and had been chairman of the Gisborne Harbour Board for the past ten years. He was prominent in-the volunteer movement in his earlier years, holding the rank of captain. . • Mr T. H. Lowry and Mrs Lowry, Okawa, who are at present visiting England, are expected to leave on, August 31 in the Queen Mary on their return to New Zealand, via the United States and will arrive in New Zealand early in October. Mrs Lowry, who is president of the New Zealand Red Cross Society, with Lady Wigram, Christchurch, represented New Zealand at the International Red Cross Society’s Conference at St. James’s Palace, London, in June.