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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22435, 23 June 1938, Page 10

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Mr A. Russell, 8.D.5., was appointed senior dental surgeon of the Christchurch Public Hospital at a meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday. Mr Russell is at present first assistant dental surgeon at the Wellington Public Hospital. Mr L. B. Evans was elected chairman at yesterday’s meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board. Mr W. Rodgers, assistant district railway traffic manager at Christchurch, left for the south yesterday morning to begin duty as district traffic manager at Invercargill. Positions which he has filled at Christchurch since his arrival from Invercargill some years ago are those of train running officer, stationmaster, transport officer, and assistant traffic manager. His successor as assistant traffic manager has not been appointed yet. Mr W. H. Rose, who returned from Australia by the Awatea on Monday, arrived in Christchurch by the steamer express yesterday morning. Mr S. G. Holland, M.P., returned to Christchurch by the steamer express yesterday morning. Arrivals from the north by the inter-island steamer express yesterday morning included Dr. J. Mitchell, Messrs C. Fisk, M. Holland, P. J. Halligan, J. McKendry, J, J. Low, D. W. Madden, A. Seed, P. McSkimming, A. W. Miller, G. P. Benzie, J. Houston, M. Myers, R. P. Harper, and C. Pryce-Jones. Dr. D. McK. Dickson was' re-elected president of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation. Society at the first meeting of the council after the council elections last evening. Messrs C. H. Stonyer and G. Ebert were elected vice-pre-sidents. The scow Echo, which has been on the Wairau bar since last Thursday, came off about midday yesterday with the tide. She was, according to advice received in Wellington, undamaged, and proceeded up the river to Blenheim. She will leave there for Wellington today and will resume her usual service.—Press Association. “The normal expectation of life of persons in New Zealand is increasing,’’ said an expert witness when giving evidence in a civil case before Mr Justice Callan in the Supreme Court at Auckland. From calculations he had made from information contained in the New Zealand Year Book witness estimated that the approximate expectation of life of a man of 38 years was 34 years. “Which makes a total of 72, the age at which Judges retire,” remarked his Honour. “The day has gone when an endeavour can be made to conceal from juries the fact that it is an insurance company that is going to pay and not the defendant,” said Mr Justice Reed in>the Supreme Court at Auckland. His Honour was addressing a jury in a case in which a claim for damages was brought against a motorist, and he warned the jurymen that they should entirely disregard the fact that it was an insurance company that had to pay, and hot let it weigh with them.