ST. JOHN OFFICERS

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30171, 1 July 1963, Page 9

ST. JOHN OFFICERS

Appointments Announced

(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON. June 28. The Governor-General. Sir Bernard Fergusson, who is Prior in New Zealand of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John in Jerusalem, has been informed that the Grand Prior, the Duke of Gloucester, has approved the following triennial appointments of the Order of St. John in New Zealand;— Executive Officers. —Chancellor. J. Grierson; priory chaplain, the Very Rev. J. S. Somerville; vice-chancellor and re-ceiver-general. R. D. Moore; director of association, H. L. Paterson; director of ceremonies, A. Kirkpatrick; almoner, Sir Henry Kelliher; librarian. R. S. Harris; registrar, J. H. Ewen; hospitaller. W. A. Macallister; assistant director of association. Brigadier J. M. Mitchell; chief secretary. C. Meachen: associate secretary, B. L. J. Meachen.

Superior officers of the St. John Ambulance Brigade attached to headquarters.—Chief Commissioner. Brigadier J. M. Mitchell; Deputy Chief Commissioner. C. Meachen; Superintendent in Chief (N.I. Miss P P Cook; surgeon in chief. Group Captain A. Howard Marsh; chief nursing officer (training). Miss M. Paton; principal medical officer of the St. John Ambulance Association. Dr. J. O. Mercer. Commissioners in charge of brigade districts. —Auckland. J. Pearce; Waikato-Bay of Plenty. C W Linkman; Manawatu. P Harris; Taranaki. H. D Law: Wanganui. W J. Boyd: Hawke's Bav-East Coast. H. E. Taylor: Wellington district. C. H. McKenzie; Canterbury-West Coast. G. L. Falck; Otago. A. C. Paine.