BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28920, 13 June 1959, Page 12

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Sir Charles Cotton was professor of geology at Victoria University College for 44 years to 1953, when he retired. He was awarded the Victoria medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1949, and held the Hector and Hutton medals of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Sir Timothy Cleary was appointed a Judge of the Appeal Court when it was established last year. He was born in 1900. educated at St. Patrick’s College, Wellington, and Victoria University College, and practised in Wellington. Sir Alexander Gillies has been an active worker for the New Zealand Crippled Children Society. He is a former Dominion president of the Red Cross Society, and a member of the New Zealand Council of Physical Education.

Sir Alfred North' was born in Christchurch 58 years ago and was educated at the West Christchurch District High School and Canterbury University College, where he graduated master of laws. He practised with an Auckland legal firm and was made a King’s Counsel in 1947, He was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court i» 1951, and .(appointed to the Appeal it was established.

Dr. R. A. Falla has been director of the Dominion Museum since 1947, when he left the Canterbury Museum, where he was director for 10 years. Dr. Falla

went to the Antarctic with Sir Douglas Mawson’s expedition in 1929-30 as a zoologist, and is well known as an ornithologist. Mr C. Foster Browne is organist and master of choristers at Christchurch Cathedral and music master at the Cathedral Grammar School. He has held both positions for the last 21 years, and earlier was headmaster of the Grammar School. He is a member of the committee which chooses the conductor of the National Orchestra, and has been music critic of “The Press” for many years. Mr R. E. White has been Mayor of Timaru since 1953, and has been on the South Canterbury Electric Power Board since 1937. Mr J. W. Huggins retired two years ago from the position of Chief City Inspector in Christchurch, a position he held for 23 years after service with the Health Department. Mr Huggins’s interest in housing and particularly housing for pensioners, went beyond his official duties; and in his retirement he has remained on the Christchurch Housing Allocation Committee, the Diocesan Social Services Council, and the committees administering Langford House, Fitzgerald House, and Churchill Courts, homes for the aged. Captain J. N. Allan has been commanding officer of H.M.N.Z.S. Pegasus, the Canterbury Division of the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve, since January, 1963.