Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25244, 24 July 1947, Page 6

Personal Items

Mr S. T. Barnett, Assistant Undersecretary of the Land and Survey Department, has been appointed assistant director (administration) in the Education Department. The position is a new one, involving co-ordination and immediate control over all the non-professional work of the department.—(P.A.)

Mr M. Ross, District Employment Officer for the National Employment Service, will leave to-day to take up his new position as District Superintendent of ttje- Department of Labour and Employment at Auckland. Last evening he was met by the council of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association, and was made a presentation by Mr F- C. Penfold, vice-president of the association. Senior officers of several other Government departments were also present.

Sympathy with the relatives of Mr T. A. B°ss was expressed by the North Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday. Mr Ross was employed in the pathological department of the Christchurch Public Hospital for 34 years

Mr Murray A. Falconer, a neurosurgeon attached to the Dunedin Hospital, will be a guest speaker at the annual meeting in New York in December of the Society for Research in NeYvo us and Mental Diseases. Mr Falconer, who was awarded a Nuffield Travelling Lectureship to enable him to visit neuro-surgical centres overseas, will leave Dunedin in August, and will attend the neuro-surgical degartment at Oxford, England, under is old chief. Sir Hugh Cairns. He will be under Dr. Wilder Penfield at Montreal, Canada, and Professor Herbert Olivecrona at Stockholm. Sweden. Mr Falconer will travel fey air both ways, and expects* to return to Dunedin before Christmas. —(P.A.)