Personal Items

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29832, 26 May 1962, Page 10

Personal Items

Mr W. F. Airey, secretary of the Reserve Bank for the last 33 years, is retiring on September 30 on medical advice. He joined the bank on its formation in 1934. (PA)

Mr F. W. Dawson has been appointed chief administrative officer of the Broadcasting Corporation. The post recently became vacant as the result of a reorganisation of senior positions in the corporation.—(P. A.) Dr. R A. Falla, director of the Dominion Museum, will leave today on an extended study and conference tour overseas.—(P.A.) Mr B. McP. O’Connor, commercial editor of the “Evening Post,” Wellington, has been appointed assistant to th? research director of the New Zealand Bankers’ Association Dr. J. F. Duncan, reader in radiochemistry at the University of Melbourne, has been appointed to the chair of theoretical and inorganic chemistry at Victoria University. Educated at Liverpool Collegiate School, Dr. Duncan graduated Ph.D. and D.Sc. from Oxford. He was for six years a member of the chemistry division of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Research Establishment Harwell

Mr R. L Bradley has been appointed regional superintendent of education at Auckland. He will succeed Mr L U F. Enser, who wiU retire on June 30.—(P.A.)

The Rev Father B. Meeking has been appointed chairman of the North Canterbury Hospita’ Board chaplains’ council, and the Rev. W D Harding secretary

Dr. L. F Brosnahan, senior lecturer in English at University College, Ibadan, has been appointed to the chair of English language at Victoria University Born in Wellington, Dr. Brosnahan was educated at the Timaru Boys’ High School and graduated M.A with first-class honours in English from the University of Otago. He later graduated doctor of letters and philosophy from the University of Leyden. Mr F. W Rooke, a former Wellington Tourist Department officer, has been appointed sales and publicity representative for the department in Brisbane He has held a similar position in Sydney since late 1960. (PA.)

Objection To Pylons

Residents of Blockhouse Bay have decided to call on the Electricity Department to abandon plans for a high-ten-sion power transmission line along the Manukau Harbour foreshore The meeting of 140 considered the line could follow the route of the proposed Onebunga to Avondale motorway or be laid underground. They objected to pylons because they would detract from the beauty of the area. -(PA.)