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Drs. H. E. Harris and W. J. P. Hutchison have been appointed house surgeons to the Wellington Public Hospital, in succession to I)is. Salmond and Allison, who have resigned. Drs. J. T. Elliott, L. L. Ferguson, W. Irving, AY. Newlands, and W. H. Parkes have been reappointed inomoers of the Medical Board under the Medical Practitioners' Act. Mr John H. Parr, son of the Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister of E..'.r ation, was admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court Jast week at Auckland by Mr Justice I Stringer.
Sir Thomas Mackenzie, M.L.C., and Lady Mackenzie, the Hon. T. Mac Gibbon," M.ti.C. (Dunndiu), and the Hon. J. A. Hanan, M.P., were passengers from the North by Saturday's ferry steamer.
The ■Man.Ttv.iUT Croquet Club presented Dr. Whitaker with a travelling vug as a memento'of the good-will anfl esteem in which he is held by members of the club. Dr. Whitaker will shortly leave for the Old Country.
Dr. J. Allan Berry, late of Napier, but now demonstrator of anatomy at Guy's Hospital, Ixmdon, has been successful in gaining his Master of Surgery degree with honours. Prior to taking uj medicine, Dr. Berry was on the literary staff of the "Hawke's Bay Tribune."
The Hon. G. J. Anderson ( Minister of Labour, accompanied by his secretary, Mr F. Sherwood, arrived by yesterday morning's ferry steamer, and leaves by the first express this morning for Southland. He will pay a visit to his electorate and return to Wellington on Saturday nest.
On Saturday tho Prime Minister (the Right, Hon. W. F. Maasey) celebrated his attainment of the age of 65. Mr Massey was born in Londonderry, and came to New Zealand when a youth of 14 years to join his parents. The jubileo of his arrival in Now Zealand in the ship City of Auckland occurred last December.
Our London correspondent states that Lord Louis Mountbatten, who is.doing a course at tlio Navigation School at Whale Island, has just come out top of the torpedo class and will be shortly appointed to a ship. His brother, the Earl of Medina, hap been for some time in the Mediterranean as gunnery lieutenant in H.M.S. Cardiff.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17104, 28 March 1921, Page 6
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