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Press, Volume C, Issue 29604, 29 August 1961, Page 14

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Mr R. G. Dick, former Surveyor-General in New Zealand, has been appointed manager of a project to assist the Government of North Borneo with land, water, and mineral surveys of the Labuk valley. The appointment is for three years and is made under the United Nations technical assitance programme.—(P.A.) Major K. G. Miles, brigade major of the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the Royal New Zealand Army, will leave New Zealand next month for a course at the Joint Service Staff College at Latimer. Buckinghamshire. He will be replaced in Christchurch by Major J. F. Spring, a general staff officer at the headquarters of the New Zealand Division at Linton. Major Miles has been in Christchurch for two years. C.0.R.5.0. has appointed the Rev. H. C. Dixon as national secretary to succeed Mr C. W. Morrison who has accepted the post of executive director of Korea Church World Service. Mr Dixon has been C.0.R.5.0. organiser in Auckland and district since 1956.—(P.A.) Mr M. H. Buckenham, younger son of Mrs and the late Mr R. C. Buckenham, of Upper Riccarton, and formerly of Dunsandel, has been awarded an Inco research fellowship and a Fullbright travel grant to study for nine months at Columbia University School of Mines, New York. Mr Buckenham is at present senior lecturer in mineral engineering at Otago University.