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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25306, 4 October 1947, Page 8

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Viscount Addison. British Secretary' of State for Commonwealth Relations, arrived in Auckland from Rotorua yesterday afternoon with Lady Addison. They will leave for Brisbane by flying-boat on Monday morning on the first stage of their return journey to Britain.—(P.A.)

Mr Justice Fleming will leave for Dunedin to-day. Mr Justice Kennedy, who is at present in Christchurch, will preside at sittings of the Supreme Court next week.

Dr. G. T. P. Tarrant, recently arrived from England, has taken up his duties as senior lecturer in the physics department at Canterbury University College. After taking his degree at Cambridge University lie spent five years in research at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, under Professor Lord Rutherford. Dr. Tarrant was until recently headmaster of a grammar school in Liverpool. Before that he was at George Watson’s Boys’ College, Edinburgh, and at Manchester. Besides writing two advanced text books, he has made original contributions to the study of nuclear physics in a number of papers and articles in various scientific journals.

Mr James A. Johnstone, of Christchurch, was congratulated by the council of the Canterbury Society of Arts at a meeting recently, on being represented in the Sculpture Hall of the exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy by his work “Young New Zealander.” Messrs A. B. Bremner (senior engineer at Greymouth of the Public Works Department) and A. C. Beck, of the geology survey branch at Greymouth, have been appointed members of the Westland Catchment Board.

Mr W. A. McKinney has been appointed to represent the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce and the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association on the Christchurch Rehabilitation Committee.

The Rev. Eric M. Enright, minister of the Gisborne Baptist Church, has been appointed director of the Lebanon Eible Institute of the British Syrian Mission. Mr Enright was formerly minister of the Lincoln road Baptist Church, and during war service as a chaplain he was stationed near Christchurch for a time. He will visit Christchurch this month with the Rev. E. R. Harries, whom he will succeed. Messrs W. T. Langley, J. B. McBride, and Dr. D. E. Hansen were appointed last evening by the board of governors of the Christchurch and Papanui Technical Colleges to attend a meeting called by the Mayor (Mr E. H. Andrews) to establish a branch of the United Nations Association. Mr S. E. Scales, who has shown considerable promise as a cartoonist; has been granted a rehabilitation bursary for two years to further his art studies in England. He will leave the Dominion on October 16. Educated at the Timaru Boys’ High School, Mr Scales was formerly a member of the literary staff of the “Timaru Herald.” He served in the Air Force after enlisting early in the war, and after taking part in operations in the Far East was for some time a prisoner in a Japanese camp. On his return to New Zealand, he was employed by a Christchurch advertising agency, and continued his studies at the Canterbury College School of Art. The chairman of the board of governors of the Christchurch and Papanui Technical Colleges (Mr T. W. West), and the principal of the Papanui Technical College (Mr J. B.' McBride) were congratulated by the board last evening on their election as president and secretary-treasurer respectively of the Technical Education Association of New Zealand, The board of governors of the Christchurch and Papanui Technical Colleges last evening passed a motion of sympathy with Mr J. B". Mcßride, principal of Papanui Technical College, and his family in the death of Mr McBride’S mother.