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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28399, 4 October 1957, Page 12

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The Commissioner of Works (Mr F. M. Hanson) left New Zealand by air yesterday for Australia. At the invitation of the Tasmanian Government, he will discuss highway and reading construction with the Works Ministry there. He will also visit Victoria and New South Wales to inspect reading activities. He will return to Wellington in about a month.—(P.A.) Messrs H. J. Wardell and J. Acland have been re-elected chairman and deputy-chairman of the New Zealand Wool Board.— (P.A.) Mr F. H. Corner and Dr. V. Armstrong, of the New Zealand High Commissioner’s Office, London, are delegates to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s conference at present in session at Geneva.—(P.A.) Mr P. B. Vincent, an assistant master on the staff of Christchurch Boys’ High School, who is at present studying at the University of California. Berkeley, has applied for extended leave of absence to enable him to complete his master of arts degree. The school board of governors decided at its meeting yesterday to recommend to the Education Department that the leave be granted. The council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce last evening stood in silence in memory of Mr G. T. Weston, who died last month. Mr Weston, said the president (Mr W. G. V. Fernie), had been a member of the chamber for 52 years and honorary solicitor to the ‘ Chamber.