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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27407, 21 July 1954, Page 10

Personal Items

The Minister of Industries and Commerce (Mr J. T. Watts) has been admitted to a Wellington private hospital suffering from overstrain. Medical treatment is expected to extend oyer a fortnight. His health, it was said yesterday, was not causing his medical advisers concern, but hospital treatment had become necessary because of a condition of overstrain arising from attention to his portfolio sustained over a long period. During Mr Watts’s absence, his Ministerial duties will be taken over by the Minister of Agriculture (Mr K. J. Holyoake) and by the Parliamentary Undersecretary to the Minister of Industries and Commerce (Mr E. R. Neale),— (P.A.)

Lieutenant-Colonel G. P. Sanders, D. 5.0., senior staff officer of the New Zealand Division, will arrive in Christchurch from Wellington on Friday. He will inspect A Company of the Ist Battali6n, Canterbury Regiment, at a week-end camp at Rangiora on Saturday, and will also see the 3rd Field Ambulance at a day parade. He will fly to Dunedin in the afternoon. The Rev. Canon I. L. Richards, vicar of St. Luke’s parish for the last 18 years, who has been appointed chaplain of hospitals? was bidden farewell on Monday evening by his parishioners. At a function in St. Luke’s Hall, the church warden, Mr J. Lynch, sented a cheque to Canon Richards on behalf of the parishioners.