Personal Items

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30133, 17 May 1963, Page 10

Personal Items

Dr. E. E Chamberlain, director of the Plant Diseases Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Auckland, was reelected president at the annual conference of the New Zealand Microbiological Society at Lincoln College yesterday. Mr W. Te Punga, of the Wallaceville animal research station, was elected vice-president

Mr G. H. Greenaway, of Auckland, has been elected president of the Educational Institute. Messrs W R Familton 'Cambridge) and G. C E Chapman-Cohen (Nelson) were elected vice-presidents -(PA.)

Mr G H Stringer. DirectorGeneral of Broadcasting will leave by air on Sunday for Canada to attend the Commonwealth broadcasting conference He will be joined there by the NZBC.’s director of engineering. Mr W L Harrison—(P A.)

Mr A. C. Stanbury principal scientific officer of the Geophysical Observatory DS.IR., will represent- New Zealand at a meeting of the International Union of Geology and Geophysics at Berkeley California, from August 19 to 31. and at the fourteenth general assembly □* the International Scientific Radio Union at Tokyo from September 9to 20 He will also visit scientific institutions in the United States Japan and Australia.

Defence Spending.—N e w Zealand was the only Western bloc nation spending less on defence per capita than Australia, the Returned Servicemen's League president Mr Arthur Lee) said yesterday.—Canberra, May 16.