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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26506, 22 August 1951, Page 6

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The United States Ambassador .to New Zealand (Mr R. M. Scotten) and Mrs Scotten returned to Auckland in the Aorangi yesterday from an 18-day vacation in Honolulu. They will fly to Wellington to-day.—(P.A.) Sir Thomas Hunter, of Wellington, former Director of School Dental Hygiene, and Lady Hunter arrived at Auckland yesterday by the Aorangi after a seven months’ holiday in the Pacific and North America. Sir Thomas Hunter was the founder of school dental clinics in New Zealand, and was Director of Dental Services in the First World War.—(P.A.)

Major P. G. Monk, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (quartering), of Army Headquarters, Wellington, arrived in Christchurch yesterday. He will be in the South Island until midSeptember. inspecting army property within the Southern Military District. Mr E. H. Debreceny, of Wellington, was welcomed to the Wheat Research Committee yesterday as a bakers’ representative on the committee. Mr Debreceny is president of the New Zealand Federation of Bakers and pastrycooks.

Reference was made to the appointment of Dr. O. H. Frankel to the post of head of the Division of Plant Industry in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, at yesterday’s meeting o{ the Wheat Research Committee, lite committee placed on record its appreciation of Dr. Frankel’s service to the Wheat Research Institute over .22 years as a geneticist, director and finally a memer of the committee, and congratulated him on the appointment.