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Sir Thomas M. Wilford, High Commissioner for New Zealand, Iras been ■ appointed a member of the Grand Council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign. A notification \o this effect' was announced at a meeting of the • Central Committee of the New Zealand branch of the campaign held in Wei" lington yesterday afternoon, . At tho annuatf meeting of- the New Zealand Sheepowners' and Tanners' Federation votes' of sympathy wero passed to the relatives of the late Sir George Clifford and the lato Sir George Hnnter. lir" moving' the resolution, Mr. H. D. Acland (president) said that that Sir George Clifford and Sir 'George Hunter had fulfilled tho highest "eals.^ of useful British citizenship, and their' loss would be, keenly felt. Professor J. W. Jlinton, formerly o£ Otago University, who occupies the! chair of physics at the University of; Ceylon, left Auckland by tho Aorangi, for Vancouver. Professor Hinton, who', has been visiting relatives in- Invercargill, intends to visit 'universities in. Canada and the United States, and will go to England for a special course of' study at tho Cavendish - Laboratory, ■ Cambridge, under Sir Ernest Rutherford. He will then resume hie duties, in Ceylon.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 51, 28 August 1930, Page 15
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