PERSONAL NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 102, 1 May 1943, Page 6

PERSONAL NOTES

Government House, Wellington, April 30. His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, attended by Major C. J. Hol-land-Martin, today inspected a military camp in the North Island. His Excellency will return to Wellington tomorrow. . Dr. C. H. Hughes-Johnson, Wanganui, who has been appointed assistantmedical superintendent of the. Glasgow Royal Infirmary, is the son of Mrs.' G. N. Hughes-Johnson, Gonville. He attended the Collegiate School from 1925 to 1928 and took his degrees of'M.B., Ch.B., at the Otago University College, and later was house surgeon at the Wanganui Public Hospital. Mr. H. D. Cooper, Napier manager for Dalgety and Company, Ltd., has been appointed New Zealand superintendent for the company in succession to the late Mr. T. A. Moodie. Mr. Cooper, who was born in Kent, England, came to New Zealand in 1912. He was engaged in farming for some years and joined Dalgety and Company in 1917. After representing the company as stock agent in different parts of the Auckland Province he was appointed auctioneer at Auckland in 1922. In July, 1928, he became manager at Te Kuiti, and in 19"7 was promoted to the position of manager at Napier with control of the company's business throughout Hawke's Bay and Poverty Bay. Mr. Robert C. Murie, formerly of Wellington, who has been in Australia for the past three years on defence work, is visiting Wellington. Di\ Charles R. Burns, of Wellington, has been elected a Fellow oO the Royal College of Physicians, according to a U.P.A. message. Dr. Burns was born in Blenheim and educated at St. Mary's Convent School, Blenheim, Marlborough High School, and Nelson College, and took his Doctor of Medicine course at OtSgo University. He became a member of the Royal College of Physicians following a visit to England, in the course of which he was at London Hospital. Before coming to Wellington he practised in Dunedin, and was for some time attached to the New Plymouth and Auckland Hos-