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Surgeon-Commander H. K. Corkill, V.D., "0.8. E., arrived at Wellington from Auckland today.
The Consul-General of Poland, Count Wpdzicjd,. will leave Wellington tomorrow pn a visit to New "Plymouth and Inglewood.
Sir Charles Norwood left, Wellington yesterday for Auckland.
Mr. W. W. Mulholiand, Dominion president of the: New Zealand Farmers' Union, who, has been attending an executive meeting in Wellington, left for the south last night.
Mr. A. McLagan, president of the New Zealand Federation of Labour, arrived in Wellington yesterday from the south.
The Minister pf Education (Mr, H. G.R. Mason), who is at present visiting .Christchurch, is to leave on Saturday on his return to Wellington.
Mr. A. H. Ihle, assistant District Public Trustee at Christchurch, has been appointed Commissioner of Patents in Wellington. His position in Christchurch will be filled by Mr. W. Kane, lately District Public Trustee for Greymouth.
Mr. Ray Maley, who was the special representative of the Australian Associated Press in Singapore, left there just before the evacuation of Malaya, and is on his way back to Australia.
Lieutenant-Colonel W. J. HopeRobertson, New Zealand Medical Corps, has been appointed honorary consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal New Zealand Navy at Wellington.
The resignation of Dr. J. T. Campbell from the staff of Victoria University College was reported to the College Council at a meeting last night. Dr. Campbell is to undertake special work in the Navy.
Mr. Winston H. Turner has been appointed the special representative of the Australian Associated Press in the Netherlands East Indies, with headquarters, for the present, in Batavia. Mr. Turner, who was released for this assignment by the Sydney "Sun," was previously > with the A.A.P. both in London and New York.
Reference to the death in a motor accident", in Equatorial Sudan, of Dr. John G. Myers was made by the principal (Sir Thomas Hunter) at a meeting of the Victoria University College Council last night. Sir Thomas said that the Empire had suffered a very severe loss through the death of Dr. Myers, who was a celebrated entomologist and a former student of the college. Members stood in silence as a mark of respect.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1942, Page 7
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