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Press, Volume C, Issue 29620, 16 September 1961, Page 10

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Major-General Sir Stephen Weir has been reappointed Colonel Commandant, NewZealand Special Air Service. Lieutenant-Colonel J. F. R. Sprosen has been appointed Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery, Southern Military District. He replaces MajorGeneral G. B. Parkinson. Mr W. McK. Williams has been elected to the Potato Board as the growers’ representative for the northern ward. He was the only nomination. Mr O. C. Stalker has been appointed an additional member of the Waimakariri Rabbit Bpard. Dr. Stanley F. Brown, who graduated from the University of Otago School of Physical Education in 1951. has been appointed assistant professor in the physical education department of the University of British Columbia. Canada. Dr. Brown, formerly of Christchurch, was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Illinois in 1955. Mr J. Kerr has been appointed district executive officer of the Health Department at Papakura. Mr Kerr, who is at present an administrative officer in the Public Health Division of the department in Christchurch, has served in the department in this city during the whole of his career. He will leave to take up his new appointment in about a fortnight.

Mr K. J. Brookman was admitted by Mr Justice Macarthur as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand yesterday, on the motion of Mr W. R. Lascelles.