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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22876, 24 November 1939, Page 8

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The Mayor (Mr R. M. Macfarlane, M.P.) returned from Wellington yesterday. Professor J. Hight, Rector of Canterbury University College, returned from the north yesterday. Mr R. B. Tennent, director of the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture, arrived from the north yesterday. Mr H. C. Lusty, inspecting engineer of the Railways Department, arrived from Wellington yesterday. Captain David Kee, of the Church Army, who has been in charge of the society’s work in the Burnham Military Camp, will now take up his position as Dock Street Missioner, 1 6 which he was appointed before the outbreak of the war. He will be on the staff of St. Matthew’s Church, Auckland. Dr. W. H. Pickering, of Los Angeles, a son of Mr A. W. Pickering, Merivale, and a student at Canterbury University College in 1928, is now on his way to India with Dr. R. A. Millikan, who recently visited New Zealand, and Mr H. V. Neher, to study cosmic radiation in relation to magnetic latitude. Dr. Pickering, who was at Wellington College, went to the Californian Institute of Technology after one year at Canterbury College, and has been there for 10 years studying cosmic radiation. He has taken the degrees of Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy there. He is at present in Singapore awaiting passage to India, according to his wife, who is in Christchurch, and after the scientists have wor’:ed at Madras and Lahore, they will come back to work in Australia.