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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29916, 1 September 1962, Page 10

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The Bishop of Christchurch (the Rt. Rev. A K. Warren) will leave Christchurch today to conduct confirmation services at St. Alban's Church. Pleasant Point. in the parish of Te Ngawai. and at St. Augustine's Church, Waimate. He will also attend the nineteenth anniversary celebrations of St. Augustine’s Church

The Very Rev. Father T. P Fitzgerald, prior at Aquinas Hall. Dunedin, has been elected prior of the Dominican House of Studies. Sydney .—(P A ) Rear-Admiral P. Phipps, Chief of the Naval Staff, arrived in Christchurch on a brief visit yesterday. He paid a formal call on RearAdmiral D M Tyree, commander of the United States Navy Antarctic support force. Last evening he officially launched the Sea Ranger ship Pukaki at the Girl Guide headquarters in Armagh street

Mr E J. Sutch has been appointed director of the Standards Institute He joined the Public Service in 1928 and served with the State Advances Corporation, the Department of Island Territories and in the parliamentary secretarial corps before joining the Department of Industries and Commerce in 1948 (PA.)

Detective Chief Superintendent W R. Fell, head of the Criminal Investigation Branch, left yesterday for Perth to attend a C. 1.8 superintendent's course.—(P A ) Mr M Hewitson, a senior inspector of post - primary schools in Auckland, has been awarded a British Council grant for six months' study in Britain. He will leave at the end of September. Mr Hewitson will make a general survey of present practices in Britain in the teaching of English and foreign languages —(PA) Mr C. O Clinton, district officer iff Christchurch of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, has been appointed to represent the department on the permanent committee formed recently to conduct Antarctic weeks in Christchurch