MR T. J. MALING, O.B.E.

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26441, 7 June 1951, Page 6

MR T. J. MALING, O.B.E.

A former Mayor of Timaru, Mr Mating has had an interesting and varied life. A bank clerk and farm hand in his early days, Mr Maling was associated with the frozen meat trade in its infancy and, siqce his retirement from the position of managing director of Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd., has been chairman of directors. His wide field of interests includes church property trustee work, charitable and educational interests and the Christ’s College Old Boys’ Association. MR M. J. BARNETT, M.B.E. Now Superintendent of Parks and Reserves in Christchurch. Mr Barnett has been in charge of the city’s reserves since 1929 and of the parks since the City Council took over from the Christchurch Domains Board. Mr Barnett has always taken an interest in such bodies as the Institute of Park Administration and other professional organisations. Christchurch’s parks and reserves have been admired by visitors and the work of the department, under Mr Barnett, over the centennial period earned the unstinted praise of visitors and experts from all over New Zealand and overseas. MISS JANE TROTTER, M.B.E. Miss Trotter, now in her 23rd year as matron of Lyndhurst Obstetric Hospital, has served for many years on nurses’ and hospital organisations. She was sub-matron of Invercargill and Auckland hospitals before coming to Christchurch, where she was for a while matron of St. Helens Hospital. A former president of the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Registered Nurses’ Association, she is chairman of the local branch of the Private Hospitals’ Association. She has served on the national executives of both these organisations. On October 6, 1948, Miss Trotter entertained many friends at a party given to celebrate the 1000th birth at her hospital, and amongst the guests was a young man who was the first baby born in the hospital. The next day, Dr. L. C. L. Averill wrote to the lady editor of “The Press” saying that his colleagues of the New Zealand Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, of which he Was president, wished to acknowledge publicly the debt that members of his profession owed to Miss Trotter, whom they recognised as a pioneer of modern maternity nursing in New Zealand.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL E. T. KENSINGTON, 0.8. E. Mr Kensington, who ia the Ministry of Works engineer at Methven, had a distinguished war service. He left New Zealand as lieutenant in the artillery end returned a lieutenantcolonel. After service in Greece and Crete he went through the desert campaign and served in Italy until after the centure of Florence. He was appointed commanding officer of the 3rd Field Regiment Roval New Zealand Artillery, in 1949. He holds the efficiency decoration and is an honorary Alde-de-Camp to the GovernorGeneral.