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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1941, Page 4

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The Hon. W. E. Perry. Minister of Internal Affairs, returned to Wellington from the north today. Mr J. J. Maher, Mungaroa, was reelected chairman of the Wellington Dairy Farmers’ Co-operative Association at the annual meeting yesterday. Mrs. S. V. Gooding, The Terrace. Masterton, announces the engagement of her only daughter, Betty Doreen Ness, to 2nd-Lieut. William Harry Fraser, son of Mr and Mrs J. C. Fraser, 709 Rodney Street, Hastings. At the annual meeting of the Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union, held in Timaru yesterday afternoon, the following executive officers, all of In- 1 vercargill, were appointed:—President, Mrs High Graham; secretary, Miss M. Ray; committee, Mrs Thomson, Sister Betty, Miss Cowan. ' Mr S. G. Holland, Leader of the Opposition, who is visiting officials at branches of the National Party in the North Island, was in Auckland yesterday. He will return to Wellington on Thursday, via the East Coast and the Wairarapa, and will go south the same evening to visit South Island branches of the party. Mr Phineas Selig, former manager of the Christchurch Press Company Limited, and a pioneer of trotting administration in New Zealand, has died at the age of 85, says a Christchurch Press Association message. Mr Selig was well known as one of the Dominion’s leading newspapermen when he retired in 1923 after 50 yeais in journalism and 30 years as manager of the Christchurch “Press.” For some years Mr Selig was president of the South Island Trotting Association. Mr Selig also filled the position of president of the New Zealand Trotting Conference for 13 years.

The following principal officers were elected at the annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commeice a Invercargill yesterday: President, Captain S. Holm, Wellington; vice-presi-dent Mr N. Spencer, Auckland; vicepresident of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire Mr A. G. Lunn, Auckland; executive, Messrs Eady and Spencer, Auckland; Fraser, Taranaki; O Toole, Wanganui; Hammond and Mac Gibbon, Christchurch; Lawn and Begg, Dunedin - Jenkins, South Canterbury; Tapley’ Invercargill, Captain Holm and Messrs Kindle, McCaul, Nimmo Stronach, Paterson, Patrick and Wall, Wellington.