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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1939, Page 4

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Mr C. L. Calvert has been elected chairman of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce, in succession to Mr P. O. Smellie.

Guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel Masterton, include Messrs L. Holbrooke (Eketahuna) and G. Hood (Wellington).

Mrs A. E. Boyes, of Wellington, visited Masterton yesterday in connection with Sketch Club activities. In the afternoon she gave criticisms of members’ work. Many honorary members were present.

The position of Resident Surgical Officer at the Dunedin Hospital is being filled by Dr Peter Riley, a son of the late Dr F. R. Riley, for many years a resident of Dunedin. Dr P. Riley, who has been in London for several years, will leave for New Zealand early next month with his wile and family of two.

■Mr P. J. O’Brien, taxidermist at the Canterbury Museum, has been awarded a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to visit American museums and study taxidermy there. He will leave New Zealand in December. and will be away about 10 months. This is the second grant recently made by the corporation to a member of the stuff of the Canterbury Museum. The curator. Mr R. A. Falla, is at present away on a visit to Britain and the Continent studying modern museum practice.

The death occurred on Wednesday night at his home in Napier of Mi' Robert William Dyer in his eightyfirst year. For several years he was stipendiary magistrate for the Hawke’s Bay district. Mr Dyer, who had always taken a keen interest in local and national politics since, was admitted as a solicitor in the Supreme Court of New Zealand at the early age of 21. had occupied important posts in various towns of the North Island, including the mayoral chair in Hamilton for two years at the beginning of the century. Following a term as junior magistrate in Auckland he was appointed to the Hawke's Bay district about 1918. retiring from the bench after nine years' service there, since when he had lived in Napier.