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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27403, 16 July 1954, Page 10

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The Minister of Industries and Commerce (Mr J. T. Watts) will visit Christchurch next week. He will arrive by air on Wednesday morning and return to Wellington on Thursday afternoon. His official engagements include visits to the Richmond Kindergarten and the Mahers road school, and a luncheon address to the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Institute of Public Administration. Professor J. Boeke. who holds the chair of tropical economics in Leyden, Holland, will arrive in Christchurch on August 2 or August 3, and will be the guest of Professor C. Weststrate and Mrs Weststrate Fendalton, for a week. At the invitation of the Department of External Affairs he will visit Wellington and Christchurch. Before the outbreak of war Professor Boeke returned to Holland from Indonesia where he had been professor of tropical economics at the university of Batavia (now Jakarta). While in Christchurch he will deliver an address in the Chamber of Commerce Hall on the future of Western enterprise in Southeast Asia and another address on the importance of race relations will be given at Canterbury University College where he will also speak to other gatherings of students. Lieutenant-Commissioner C. J. Duncan, chief secretary of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, and Mrs Duncan will leave New Zealand today to take ud an appointment in the Argentine.—(P.A.) Messrs G. Tremaine, of Palmerston North, W. F. McArthur, of Christchurch, and C. H. Taylor, of Wellington, have been appointed members of the Town and Country Planning Appeal Board, the chairman of which is Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.—(P.A.) Mr Brian Jones, deputy-director of the Asian regional office of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), who is spending a holiday in New Zealand, will pay a one-day visit to Christchurch this month and will address a meeting of the Christchurch branch of the United Nations Association. Commander (L) L. B. Carey, director of the electrical branch of the Royal New Zealand Navy is visiting Christchurch. Yesterday morning he paid a visit to the electrical engineering department at Canterbury University College. Last evening he was entertained by the Navy League and later he lectured to the Officers’ Club. Commander Carey will return to Wellington by air this morning. Dr. John Read had been awarded the David Anderson-Berry prize for 1953 by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, states the chairman, Mr L. A. Bennett, in his annual report which will be pre* sented this afternoon at the annual meeting of the Canterbury, Marlborough, Nelson, and Westland Division of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society. The bulk of the work for this prize, which was awarded to the person who in the opinion of the society’s council had recently produced the best work on the therapeutic effects of X rays on human diseases, had been done in Christchurch. Dr. Read continued to work in the research laboratories of the Otago University Medical School, said Mr Bennett.