Biographical Notes

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29401, 31 December 1960, Page 12

Biographical Notes

Sir Guy Richardson Powles is High Commissioner for New Zealand in India, and was previously High Commissioner .in Western Samoa from 1949 to this year. He is 55. He was educated at Wellington College and Victoria University, where he graduated LL.B. He practised as a barrister and solicitor in Wellington from 1927 to 1940. (During World War II he was on the directing staff of the Staff College, and from, 1943 to 1944 served as an artillery officer in the 3rd New Zealand Division in the Pacific. He was director of personnel services at Army Headquarters in 1945. From 1946 to 1948 he was a councillor at the New Zealand Embassy in Washington. He was secretary of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs from 1931 to 1940, and its president in 1945.

Sir Francis Boyd. Adams retired in November as a Judge of the Supreme Court, having been resident Judge in Christchurch since 1954, and a member of the Supreme Court Bench since 1950 He is 72. From 1921 to 1950 he was Crown Solicitor in Dunedin. He was born in Dunedin, the son of Mr Justice A. S. Adams, who was Judge in Christchurch from 1922 to 1932. Sir Francis Adams was educated at Otago Bovs’ High School, where he was dux in 1906, and at Otago University. where he graduated BALLS., and LL.M. He was admitted to the oar in Dunedin in 1911, and began practising with the firm of Adams Bros., established in 1883 by his uncle. Mr J. A. D. Adams, and later joined by his father. He also lectured in law at Otago University, and was a prominent member of the Otago Law Society He succeeded his father as Crown Solicitor in Dunedin, a position now held by his brother. Mr H. S Adams

Dr. L. C. L. Averill, an obstetrician and gynaecologist, is medical superintendent of St.

Helens Hospital. He has been chairman of the North Canterbury Hospital Board since 1956, and a board member since 1944, his term as chairman having been notable for the opening of Princess Margaret Hospital. Dr. Averill has been a member of the executive of St. George’s Hospital since 1926, and its chairman since 1940. He is also a past president of the New Zealand branch’ of the British Medical Association, having held office in 1950-51.

Mr C. W. F. Hamilton is known throughout New Zealand and the world as the designer of the Hamilton jet boat, which he developed at his manufacturing engineering plant at Lunns road. Middleton. Mr Hamilton is also the owner of Irishman Creek Station, in the Mackenzie country, where. during World War II he established a munitions manufacturing plant for the Government, and also'designed heavy earth-moving machinery, which he used on Government aero-drome-construction contracts. Mr Hamilton was also well known before World War II as a racing driver.

Mr Winter Cole was a member of the Paparua County Council from 1944 to 1953, and a member of the North Canterbury Hospital Board from 1953 to 1956. He was alsc a member of the SpringsEllesmere Electric Power Board from 1941 to 1956, and its chairman from 1950 to 1955. He was for 20 years a member of the Upper Riccarton School Committee, being secretary for 14 years and chairman for three. Mr Cole is at present the independent chairman of the New Zealand Cycling Federation.

Miss Mary McLean is chairman of the traffic committee of the Christchurch City Council, and was the first woman president of the New Zealand Traffic Institute. Miss McLean,’ joined the New Zealand Army Nursing Service in

1918 as a masseuse, and on demobilisation began in private practice in Christchurch as a physiotherapist,. She has twice been president of the New Zealand Physiotherapists’ Association. Miss McLean has been prominent in women’s organisations, among them the National Council of Women and the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association.

Detective Senior-Sergeant G. C. Urquhart has been Chief Detective of the Christchurch C. 1.8. since 1956. He joined the Police Force in 1936, and in 1950 was granted the police Record of Merit for outstanding work in connexion with the Decke nfurder at Foxton. Chief Detective Urquhart has been stationed in Christchurch for 10 years, has had his officer’s examinations for 11 years, and is due for promotion to inspector soon.

Chief Superintendent F. J. Brady, now officer-in-charge of the Auckland police district, spent many of his 35 years in the Police Force in Christchurch. He was a detective-sergeant in the Christchurch C. 1.8., then Chief Detective for three years. He was promoted to sub-inspector in the uniform branch, then left for Auckland on promotion to inspector in 1952. Wing Commander J. Hardy is at present officer-in-charge of the technical wing of the ground training school at the R.N.Z.A.F station, Wigram. Educated at Nelson College, he joined the Air Force before World War ll,’and served as a commissioned officer in the Pacific during the war Since then he has had various appointments with the Air Department and at other R N.Z A.F stations. He was recently appointed officer-in-charge of the Boy Entrant School at Woodbourne. Lieutenant-Commander F. J. Glanville has been commanding officer of the Canterbury Navy League’s Sea Cadet Corps since 1950. An machinist at the Ad-

dington Railway Workshops, he has served as a volunteer in the Navy snce 1918, havng strated as a boy of 14 with the Christchurch Technical College sea cadet unit. During World War 11, he was engaged on the installation of underwater defences for the Navy in New Zealand.

Flight Lieutenant W.' J. Cranfield is at present adjutant at the R.N.Z.A.F station, Wigram He joined the Air Force at the age of 18. after being educated at Waitaki Boys’ High School and Christ’s College. In 1956, he was second in command of the R.N.Z.A.F. pa .y in the Antarctic and in 1957-58 he was a member of the party which gave aerial support to the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, being awarded the Polar Medal. He was again with the R.N.Z.A.F in the Antarctic in the 1958-59 season.