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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21992, 16 January 1937, Page 12

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Mr I. R. Robinson, district electrical engineer, Public Works Department, of Palmerston North, who has been spending a few days in Christchurch, will return to the north to-day. Mr J. J. B. Connor, secretary of the No. 3 Transport Licensing Area, left for Wellington last evening for a brief holiday. Mr A. W. Dingle, formerly- ground engineer to the Canterbury Aero Club, who has been appointed chief ground engineer to the Wairavapa Club, wan met by officers and members of the club yesterday aftevnoon. Mr D. Clivc Crozier, president of the club, presented Mr Dingle' with an inscribed tea service in recognition of his services to the club and as a memento of his recent marriage. Mr R. S. Taylor, vice-president, and Mr P. R. Climie, secretary of the club, also spoke.

The Mayor, of Christchurch (Mr J. W. Beanland) returned from the North Island,yesterday morning.

Dr. P. Stanley Foster left Christchurch last evening for Auckland, where he will attend the conference of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

Mr N. C. Kensington, Commissioner Of Crown Lands' and Chief Surveyor for Otago, has been appointed to a similar position in Canterbury. Mr Kensington was born in Auckland and educated at Queen's College. He was first engaged in surveying, holding a commission in Fiji, He joined the Lands Department in Taranaki in 1904. His first appointment as commissioner was in 1923, to Nelson. He was appointed to Southland in 1925, and went to Dunedin in 1929.

Mr J..W. Hadfield, director of the agronomy division of the Department of Agriculture, was a passenger from the north by the Wahine yesterday. ...