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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26362, 5 March 1951, Page 6

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Colonel H. G. Cree, who will.**; place Colonel D. E. B. Talbot aj saw Army liaison officer on the staff o* “J High Commissioner for the Unite* Kingdom, arrived at Wellington yester day in the Rangitiki from Ixmdon.J* is accompanied by his wife and a w"' year-old daughter. Colonel Cree coo” to the Dominion with a high regard x New Zealanders and P articu ,‘ ariy _iar Maoris, alongside whose battalion, ne the end of 1942, he commanded a t» talion of the British Army. Later the war he commanded a brigade Burma. During the last two y*" Colonel Cree has been at the w Office as head of the personnel Wta” of the infantry.—(P.A.) A New Zealander who has been studying and teaching at the Sorowu in Paris since he graduated M.A. w . honours from Victoria University w* lege in 1945 has returned to tne minion to take up a temporary apj» ment at Canterbury University 1. He is Dr. S. T. H. Scoones, and « arrived at Wellington yesterday in Rangitiki from London. For about months Dr. Scoones will re P* a ** h si C. Malthus as Professor of French the college.—(P.A.) An American Fulbright scholar, ; Peter Smith, assistant chemistry at the University of gan, Chicago, arrived by air at A ’ land yesterday. He will study . ! chemical construction of New : p’ants with Dr L. H. Briggs: professor of chemistry at JV--land University College. He was gv in England and educated at tn* vg, versify of California and tne sity of Michigan.—(P.A.)