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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1939, Page 4

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Mr R. H. Nimmo has been appointed acting-chairman of the executive committee of the Wellington Winter Show Association, during the absence abroad of Sir Charles Norwood.

Guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel include: Messrs J. Wright, H. W. Jenkins (Wellington); D. F. McLeod (Hinakura); H. D. Lindup (Stratford); H. S. Raphael (Auckland), and H. E. Allison (Palmerston North).

Mr A. Donald, of the Wellington Education Board, in company with Mr Jenkins, an officer of the Board, has been on a visit to Pahiatua, carrying out an inspection of the school heating system.

Mr Bryan O'Donnell, an executive member of the Otago Labour Representation Committee and the District Council of the Federation of Labour, has been appointed by the Government to the position of liason officer in connection with industrial disputes in Otago and Southland. Mr D. M. Davin, a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar in 1935 and a former student of Otago University College, has been awarded his B.A. degree with first-class honours. He has been in residence at Balliol College. Oxford, since 1936, and is being retained on the staff of the college as a lecturer.

The ' appointment of Mr C. H. Courtney, Eltham, as secretary and chief executive officer of the New Zealand Dairy Board, was made at its meeting yesterday. Mr Courtney will succeed Mr T. C. Brash, who will retire at the end of the year, and who has held the position since the inception of the board. The funeral of the late Mr N. A. Olsen, which took place in Masterton yesterday, was largely attended. The Rev F. J. Parker conducted the service at the chapel and also officiated at the graveside. Many beautiful wreaths were sent by sympathisers. The pallbearers were Messrs T. A. Weston. G. L. Halberg. J. C. Sigvertsen and J. McLauchlan.

The teachers of the Masterton Methodist Sunday School at a meeting held last night passed a vote of smypathy with the relatives of the late Mr C. E. Daniell, who was active in Sunday school work in connection with Masterton Methodism for 50 years, being superintendent of the Masterton school for the greater part of that period. Sympathy was also expressed with Mr J. H. Conly in the recent loss of his mother.