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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23482, 10 November 1941, Page 4

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The Minister for Labour (the Hon, P. C. Webb) arrived in Christchurch on Saturday and will return to Wellington on Tuesday night. The Minister for Supply (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan), who has been visiting Otago and Southland, returned to Wellington by Saturday’s steamer express. Advice has been received that Mr J, M. Austin, M.A., a graduate of Otago University, who in 1939 entered the Institute of Technology at Cambridge, Massachusetts, to undertake a post-graduate course in meteorology, has obtained his Ph.D. degree. He has proved himself a brilliant student and forecaster, winning a research scholarship in his first year. His thesis, “Fonts and Fontogeneis,” is considered an outstanding work, and he is carrying 'on this line of research. Dr. Austin has now been appointed professor of synoptic meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the age of 26, he is the youngest professor in the best technological and scientific university in America. The United States Navy officers’ theses are to be done under Dr. Austin’s supervision. Mr J. J. Maher, of Mungaroa, has been reelected chairman of directors of the Wellington Dairy Farmers’ Co-operative Association. Mr D. Wilson, of Wellington, has arrived in Invercargill to take over the management of the branch of the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand, during the temporary absence of Major C. E. Lees on military service. M. Sylvester Gruszka, the first Polish Minister to the Commonwealth of Australia, arrived in Sydney last week. M. Gruszka has for the lash four years been Consul-General for Poland in New York. Count K. Wodzicki, Polish Consul-General, will pay his first visit to the South Island this week. He will be in Christchurch from November 14 to 18, during which time he will speak before the Empire Society, the Royal Society of New Zealand, and the Rotary Club, and will visit Lincoln College. He will visit Dunedin from November 19 to 22, and will speak at several institutions and clubs. Mr R. G. Compton, of Christchurch, and Mr J. W. Lennon, of Timaru, are among candidates who passed the final cost accounting examinations conducted by the Australian Institute of Cost Accountants in September. Mr J. Flood, Dominion president of the Waterside Workers’ Union, arrived from the north on Saturday. Mr W. D. Gray, manager of the Invercargill branch of the Australasian T. and G. Mutual Life Society, has received notice of his transfer on promotion to Auckland. He will leave today to take over his new duties. Mr Dudley T. Poole, of the Dunedin branch of the society, has been appointed to succeed Mr Gray at Invercargill. Mr A. Mitchell, who has been the Tuatapere agent of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., for the last six years, has received notice of his transfer to the company’s Timaru branch and will take up his new position about the middle of the month.