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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27498, 4 November 1954, Page 12

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The Bishop of Christchurch (the Rt. Rev. A. K. Warren) and the Dean of Christchurch (the Very Rev. Martin Sullivan) will leave for Wellington by air this morning to address meetings of clergy and others on the recent Anglican Congress at Minnesota and the second assembly of the World Council of Churches at' Evanston. Sir James Hight, formerly Reetor of Canterbury University College, celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday at his home in Fendalton yesterday. From morning until late in the evening neighbours, friends, and former students of many decades of the university’s history called on Sir James Hight to offer him congratulatidns and good wishes.

Mr W. Parsonage, senior inspector of Maori schools, has been appointed senior inspector of primary schools in Auckland. Mr Parsonage received his secondary education at the Greymouth District High School, where he also began his career as a teacher. He attended Canterbury University College and the Christchurch Teachers’ Training College.—(P.A.) Mr D. J. C. Mahoney, of the literary staff of the “Auckland Star,” and formerly of the "Evening Post,” Wellington, has been selected as New Zealand’s Imperial Relations Trust bursar for 1955, subject to confirmation by the trust in Britain. The bursary is for a year’s visit to Britain, the trust paying the expenses of both the bursar and his wife. The aim is to give a New Zealand journalist an opportunity of studying the British way of life.—