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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26121, 25 May 1950, Page 4

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The Catholic Men’s Luncheon Club yesterday passed a motion congratulating the Rev. Father E. M. Joyce, of Christchurch, who was the chaplain to the club, on his appointment as Roman Catholic Bishop of Christchurch. Sir Hugh Acland, who was a patient in the Christchurch Hospital recently, has returned home and is making a good recovery from an illness. Part-time visiting staff appointments at the Christchurch Hospital were approved by the North Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday as follows: surgeons, Messrs L. A. Bennett and W. M. Cotter; physicians, Drs. R. H. Quentin Baxter and M. Gray; urologist, Mr E. R. Reay; gynaecologist, Dr. W. Mark Brown; orthopaedic surgeon. Mr J. Leslie Will; ear. nose and throat surgeon. Dr. Malcolm Robertson; opthalmologist, Dr. C. M. Stenhouse; anaesthetist. Dr. C. Morkane. All the appointments, which are subject to Ministerial approval, are for three years, subject to retiring age. Mr C. Cross was appointed senior master at Papanui Technical College yesterday at a meeting of the College Board of Managers.

Mr G. A. Hayden, treasurer of the New Zealand Patriotic Fund Board and the Canteen Fund Board, will leave these positions at the end of this month. He has resigned for health reasons. Mr Hayden’s work was praised at a meeting of the Patriotic Fund Board at Wellington yesterday by the Governor-General (Sir Bernard Freyberg), who is chairman of the board, and other members. Mr Hayden will remain a member of the board. He will live at Leigh, north of Auckland.—(P.A.)