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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 41, 18 February 1944, Page 4

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Dr. W. Gilmour, pathologist at the Auckland Hospital, returned from Wellington yesterday. Commander Malcolm MacKenzte, U.S.N.R., has been appointed naval attache and naval attache for air to the American Legation, in Wellington. Mr. A. H. Sinel has been appointed acting-general manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company, Ltd., in the absence of Mr. C. M. Turrell on account of illhealth. Mr. Frank Milner, C.M.G., M.A., rector of Waitaki Boys' High School, has handed in his resignation to the Waitaki High School Board of Governors, after a career of 47 years. Mr. Milner, born in Nelson in 1875, has been rector of the Waitaki High School for 37 years. He represented New Zealand at the Pan-Pacific Education Conference in 1921, and later in America and at the British Empire Conference in Sydney in 1938. Mr. J. Dash, M.A., principal of the Hawera Technical High School, is succeeding Mr. I. E. Newton, M.A., as principal of the Wanganui Technical College. Mr. Dash was selected from 24 applicants. He graduated from Victoria University, and his 30 years' teaching include periods as housemaster at Nelson College and Waitaki Boys' High School, and assistant at Palmerston North High School. He has been in charge at the Hawera Technical High School for the past eleven years.