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Mr K. J. Morris, deputyPremier of Queensland and Minister of Labour and T ndustry, arrived in Christchurch yesterday. He will leave for Auckland today. Mr R. A. Young was elected chairman of the Heathcote County Council at its council meeting last evening. He succeeds Mr F. W Freeman, who retired earlier this year. Cr J. C. Holliss was elected deputychairman.
Mr G. W Parkyn, director of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, will leave for Paris on December 28. to work on a U.N.E.S.C.O. .world survey of post-primary education. Mr Parkyn, who will be accompanied by his wife and two younger children, will probably work on the survey for five or six months. From Paris he will leave for Canada, the United States and Mexico to take up a Carnegie Corporation visitor’s grant.—(P.A.) »
Messrs J. H. F. Charles and G. Stephens of Christchurch and Mr M. W. Horne of Leeston were presented with certificates of attainment at a ceremony which marked the closing of the third Hydatid Control Officers’ training course at Taieri yesterday.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29070, 5 December 1959, Page 12
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