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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22467, 30 July 1938, Page 14

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The Minister for Defence (the Hon. F. Jones), accompanied by his private secretary (Mr F. M. Sherwood), arrived from Wellington by the steamer express yesterday morning and left later for Dunedin.

Mr F. J. Shanks, Deputy-Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department who will retire at the end of this month and will then make his home in' Christchurch, arrived from the north by the steamer express yesterday morning. Group Captain L. M. Isitt, Air Board Member for Personnel, was an arrival from the North Island yesterday morning. Dr. D. G. McMillan, M.P., arrived from Wellington by yesterday morning’s steamer express. Mr N. C. Phillips, M.A., of the literary staff of “The Press,” who was recently awarded a Post-Graduate Scholarship in Arts by the University of New Zealand, and who is continuing his studies at Merton College, Oxford, left for the North Island last evening on the first stage of his journey tb England. Before his departure, Mr Phillips received a presentation from the literary staff of “The Press.” Dr. H, G. Denham, Colonel G. J. Smith, and Messrs A. E. Hefford, J. G. Collins, W. H. Nicholson, and D. W. Westenra were among the passengers on the steamer express from the North Island yesterday morning. Messrs A. E. G. Lyttle and W. H. Amos were appointed representatives of the chapter on the Dominion council at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Chapter of the New Zealand Institute of Secretaries. Mr E. Cholerton, of Sumner, returned to Christchurch yesterday from a holiday trip to Java. Mr A. T. S. McGhie, LL.B., a graduate of Victoria University College and a former secretary of the New Zealand University Students Association, has been appointed Assistant Development Secretary of the Overseas League. His headquarters will be in London, but he will do a good deal of travelling throughout Great Britain, Mr J. P. Mules, 8.C0m., an old boy of Nelson College and well known in sporting and executive circles at Victoria University College in recent years, has arrived in England and has accepted an appointment to the staff of a firm of chartered accountants in Birmingham. Air Vice-Marshal C. T. Maclean, C. 8., D. 5.0., who has returned to England from three and a half years in command of the Royal Air Force in the Middle East, has been appointed in command of No. 2 (Bomber) Group, Wyton. Air ViceMarshal Maclean is a New Zealander and a graduate of Auckland University College. His service began with the Dominion Forces in 1911. In August. 1914, he was appointed to the Royal Fusiliers, and was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps in December, 1915. For service in France he was thrice mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the D.S.O. and M.C. Since the war he has commanded a flying training school at Home and been Director of Postings, Air Ministry. He has also commanded the air stations at Hinaidi (Iraq) and Heliopolis, and from 1929 to 1931 was Air Officer Commanding at Aden.