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The Chief Justice, Sir Humphrey O’Leary, who has been recovering from a collapse he suffered a few weeks ago, is progressing well and hopes to be able to leave hospital at the end of this week. He will rest for two weeks before resuming duties. —(P.A.)
The Commissioner of Police (Mr James Cummings) has been awarded the King’s Medal (Civil Division) in the King’s Birthday honours.—(P.A.) Professor F. Gordon Bell, Professor of Surgery at the University of Otago, has been elected president of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, says a New Zealand Press Association message from Melbourne. After work with standard physical measurements in England. Mr H. W. Robertson, of the Dominion physical laboratory, is expected to return to New Zealand in about three weeks. Mr Robertson will apply the knowledge he has gained to physical standards work in New Zealand, which legislation last session transferred from various other Government departments to the Scientific and Industrial Research Department.—(P.A.) Mr Thomas E. West left Christchurch last evening for Wellington where he will take the tenor role in Handel’s oratorio “Judas Maccabaeus” for the Royal Wellington Choral Union tomorrow.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25209, 13 June 1947, Page 6
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190Personal Items Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25209, 13 June 1947, Page 6
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