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Mr. Webb Takes A

THE appointment of New Zealand Island Territories Minister Clifton Webb to the position of High Commissioner in London is conditional upon the National Party winning the NZ mid-November gen eral elections.

But as a remarkable manifesta tion of faith in just that, an ad vertisement appeared in a Welling ton newspaper in October announc ing the immediate sale of household effects and antique furniture on be half of “the Hon. T. Clifton Webb, who is leaving for London shortly.”

Should things go awry in No vember, and Mr. Webb is seeking a quiet place of retirement, no doubt some of the Rarotonga “beach Euro peans” will be happy to put him up! tl Mr. E. C. Rutt, accountant for the ANZ Bank, Suva, since the branch office was opened there, has been transferred to South Australia.

Miss Ivy Pullen, a double certi floated hospital Sister, left Brisbane for Papua on September 24. She Fields Mission. She has had slight training as a dental nurse and also trained for three years at the Mel bourne Bible Institute,