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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25389, 12 January 1948, Page 6

Personal Items

Although he was discharged from Lewisham Hospital, Wellington, on January 4, after treatment for a bronchial cold, the Prime Minister (Mr P. Fraser) is still confined to bed at his home in Northland. The Prime Minister is transacting a great deal of business from his home, but it is unlikely that he will resume his duties at Parliament Buildings this week.—F.O.P.R. The Rev. Father J. Spillane, who has been parish priest at St. Mary’s, Manchester street, for that last three years, has received advice of his transfer to St. Mary of the Angels, Boulcott street, Wellington. His successor at St. Mary’s will be the Rev. Father C. J. Outtrim, S.M.. who is now stationed at Auckland.

Flight Lieutenant R. W. H. Carter, of Feilding. who took a leading part in the testing of Britain’s first heavy troop-carrying glider, the Horsa. has recent’’ returned to New Zealand. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1939. and during the war served as a test pilot under the Maintenance Command. On one occasion while he was demonstrating the Horsa glider his passengers included Earl Mountbatten, General Marshall, General Browning, Lord Ismay, and Sir Archibald Sinclair. then Minister of Aircraft Production.

Mr John Robertson, Sydney, a trumpeter and cornet player, and son of the Mayor and Mayoress of Westport (Mr and Mrs J. M. Robertson), who was to have visited New Zealand this year hes cancelled his tour because of transport difficulties. Mr Robertson has been appointed first trumpeter in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and will be a professor at the Conservatorium of Music at Sydney.