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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26523, 11 September 1951, Page 6

Personal Items

The Prime Minister (Mr Holland) returned to Wellington from Christchurch last evening. Mr T. L. Macdonald, M.P., Minister of Defence, has accepted the invitation of the Canterbury Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s Association to be the guest speaker at the annual celebration of Association Day, to be held on September 21 in the Jellico* Hall. Mr Emmanuel Lancial, the French Minister to New Zealand, will leave Auckland in the Rangitiki to-morrow on his return to France. His successor has not yet been appointed. Mf Lancia! is going to a French Foreign Office post in Paris. He has been Minister in New Zealand since June, 1949.—(P.A.) Rear-Admiral G. W. G. Simpsom Chief of Naval Staff in New Zealand from 1947 to 1950. has been appointed Flag Officer, Submarines, in succession to Rear-Admiral 8. M. Raw, .from next January. Since November las* year Rear-Admirai Simpson has been flag officer and chief British naval representative on the Allied Control Commission in Germany. Mr H. J. E. Kane, chief reporter of “The Press,” accompanied by Mrs Kane, will leave Auckland this morning by air for the United States. As a Nieman fellow. Mr Kane will study at Harvard University for eight months and then make a tour at selected States before returning to Christchurch.

Mr Hubert Milverton-Carta, the New Zealand tenor, left last evening for Auckland to begin a North Island tour, In addition to giving a series of solo recitals he will appear as guest artist with choral societies, including a presentation of "11 Trovatore” by the Royal Wellington Choral Union. He will return to Christchurch in December to sing the leading tenor part in The Messiah” with the Royal Christchurch Musical Society.

Mr J. H. North, who for many years has been manager of the hardware department of Griffen and Smith, Ltd, Greymouth, has been appointed hardware manager for New Zealand for R. and E. lingey and Company, Ltd. Mr N. 8. McCann has been appointed manager for the Christchurch Milk Company, which controls the treating house for the municipal supply. He has been accountant for the company since it was formed at the end of 1949, and was with United Dairies, Ltd, for 15 yean before it was taken over. Mr McCann replaces Mr W. A. Reid, who resigned at the end of last month. Mr Reid had been dairy superintendent of the Wellington Municipal Milk Department for seven years when appointed manager for the Christchurch Milk Company in May last year. Voyce. staff clerk at the Christchurch Public Hoapital, returned to Christchurch on Sunday from AUck- , land after attending a special educational course for hospital officers.