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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25300, 27 September 1947, Page 8

Personal Items

Mr H. F. T. Adams, M.A. (Cantab), A.M.I.Mech.E., A.F.R.Ae.S., recently arrived -from England to take up a position as senior lecturer in mechanical engineering at the School of Engineering. Canterbury University College. Mr Adams, who held the rank of squadron leader, served in the RiA.F. for 11 years before leaving for New Zealand. During the war he was connected with higher technical education in the R.A.F. and with the development of the gas turbine for aeroplanes. Mr Adams is the author of a book on gas turbines recently accepted for publication by the Cambridge University Press. Dr. D. P. Kennedy, of Christchurch, has been appointed Assistant-Medical Officer of Health in Canterbury and Westland and will take up his new duties on Monday. Dr. Kennedy went to England in 1939 for post-graduate study, but returned shortly after to join the 2n( * N.Z.E.F. He served with the forces for six years and at the end of the war was in command of the sth Field Ambulance in Trieste. He then went to the London School of Hygiene to complete his post-graduate study. Before he returned to New Zealand a few days ago Dr Kennedy visited Sweden and Denmark to observe public health measures. Mr G. R. Burrowes, secretary of the New Zealand Master Bakers’ and Pastrycooks’ Federation, will visit Australia in November to attend the conference of Australian and New Zealand master bakers at Hobart from November 11 to 13. He will also visit Sydney and Melbourne to study financial and industrial aspects of the bdking trade, and expects to be away for a month.

Mr L. H. Fee, who is retiring from the position of senior officer of the Price Tribunal in Christchurch to enter business, was entertained yesterday afternoon by executive officers and members of the staff of the Department of Industries and Commerce and the Price Tribunal. Appreciation of Mr Fee’s services for more than eight years in the administration of price control was expressed by several speakers, and the staff presented him with a crystal bowl.

Mr L. F. de Berry has been appointed secretary of the Christchurch Civic Music Council. The appointment is the first permanent one since the inception of the council. Mr de Berry is headmaster of St. Mark’s open air school, Opawa. The resignation of Cr. A. G. Williams, who had been a member for 18 years, including five years as chairman, was accepted with regret by the Heathcote County Council last evening. Cr. Williams resigned as he was no longer a ratepayer in the county. Tributes to Cr. Williams’ services were paid by the chairman (Cr. F. W. Freeman) and Cr. W. B. Laing.