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The Bishop of Christchurch (the Rt. Rev. A. K. Warren) and Mrs Warren will leave by air this afternoon for Honolulu to attend the fifty-eighth general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. The Rev. Canon Staples Hamilton celebrated his ninety-sixth birthday yesterday at his home in St. Albans. Born in Yorkshire, Canon Hamilton came to New Zealand in 1875, and was ordained a curate in the Woolston parish in 1882. Sympathy with the relatives of Sir John McKenzie was expressed by the City Council last evening, after the Mayor (Mr R. M. Macfarlane M.P.) and other councillors had paid a tribute to the philanthropic work of Sir John McKenzie. The District Industrial Medical Officer (Dr. A. Douglas) will take over the duties of the District Medical Officer of Health (Dr. D. P. Kennedy) temporarily when Dr. Kennedy leaves tomorrow for his new post as Assistant-Director of Hospitals at Wellington. The appointment of the new District Medical Officer is expected soon.
Cr. T. H. McCombs was congratulated by tne City Council last evening on his appointment as headmaster of the new Cashmere High School. Messrs W. W. Laing and T. J. Thompson have been elected to the Canterbury Metropolitan Patriotic Welfare Committee to represent local bodies. Mr J. W. JJiven, the City Treasurer, underwent an operation last week and is making satisfactory progress. Mr O. D. Cruickshank, who will retire tomorrow after about 35 years’ service as health inspector in North Canterbury districts, was met by members of the Rangiora staffs of the Health, Social Security and Transport Departments yesterday and given a presentation. The resignation of Mr J. A. Wicks from the position of lecturer in trustee law and commercial law in the department of accountancy at Canterbury University College was received with regret at a meeting of the college council yesterday. The council placed on record its appreciation of Mr Wicks’s services, which will terminate at the end of the year.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27750, 30 August 1955, Page 10
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