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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27011, 10 April 1953, Page 8

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The Prime Minister (Mr Holland) will attend the dawn service at Dunedin on Anzac Day. He will arrive on April 24, and fly back to Wellington on April 26. —(P.A.) Sir Percy Mills, vice-chairman of W. and T. Avery, Ltd., Birmingham, and a leading British industrialist, will arrive at Auckland on Sunday afternoon and leave for other parts of New Zealand the next day. He will leave Auckland for San Francisco on April 21.—(P.A.) Mr F. R. Askin, 8.E., B.Sc., D.1.C., A.M.I.CE, A.M.N.Z.1.E., has been appointed chief designing engineer (hydro), at the head office of the Ministry of Works, Wellington. Mr W. J. Rogers, of Wanganui, hai been appointed a member of the Central Milk Council, on the nomination of the Municipal Association, to replace the late Mr A. S. Bailey.—(P.AJ Mr E. A. Field has been appointed • member of the Honey Marketing Committee in place of Mr G. A. Beard, who has resigned, says the Gazette.— (P.A.) The following appointments to the Rabbit Destruction Council were gazetted l°st night: Messrs E. B. Baker and E. D. Ccttanach (representing the Nor'.h Island)', G. B. Baker, T. McKenzie and C. D. Matthews (representing the South Island), J. Arthurs, AFoster, and G. F. Yerex. —(P.A.) Members of the National Parks Authority have been appointed as follows, according to a notice appearing in the Gazette: Dr. W. R. B. Oliver (on the recommendation of the Royal Society), Mr A. P. Harper (on the recommendation of the Forest and Bird Protection Society), Mr N. McNThomson (on the recommendation the Federated Mountain Clubs), an® Professor L. W. McCaskill (representing the national parks boards).—(PA)