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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28984, 27 August 1959, Page 12

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The Prime Minister (Mr Nash) will arrive in Christchurch by air from Wellington next Monday to attend the official opening of the Princess Margaret Hospital by his Excellency the Governor-General He will return to Wellington at the conclusion of the ceremony. Captain Philip N. Erskine, Scots Guards, has arrived in Wellington to take up duty as aide-de-camp to the Governor-General < Viscount Cobham) in place of Captain Blair Stewart-Wilson, who will leave New Zealand later this week.—<P-A.) A tribute to Mr S. G. Farquhar for his work for fanning and other organisations was paid at a meeting yesterday of the provincial executive of North Canterbury Federated Farmers by the president, Mr J F G. Blakely Mr Farquhar had been a member for many years and was a vicepresident at the time of his death i Members stood in silence as a mark of respect to his memory. Mr H. Osmond-Clark, a London Orthopaedic Association’s confer- • post-graduate course at the Orthodaedic Association’s conference at Christchurch Hospital from September 28 to September 30.

The 1959 award of the David Henry scholarship has been made to Mr K. L. Hayman, B.E. (civil), Tokoroa. The award has been made to enable Mr Hayman to carry out investigations in the United States on research and development taking place in connexion with the glued lamination of timbers for structural purposes. He proposes to make his investigation at the forest products laboratory attached to the University of Wisconsin.

Mr K. B. Auld, assistant manager of the National Bank of New Zealand, Ltd., Hereford street, will leave for Australia early next week to attend the Bankers’ Administrative Staff College in Sydney. He will be away from New Zealand until mid-November.

Mr R. A. Borthwick, physicist at Christchurch Hospital, has accepted an appointment for one year as a senior expert in health physics with the International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations. He will leave Christchurch next month. Before this appointment, negotiations were being made for Mr Borthwick to visit Ceylon as a specialist physicist under the Colombo Plan.