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Evening Star, Issue 16624, 5 January 1918, Page 8

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The list of N*ew Year honors contained the name of Major John Connor, decorated with the Military Cross. Major Connor is a son of Mr James Connor, of this City, and was educated at the Otago Bovs' High School and Otago University. He had just, passed his final examination in tile medical course when war broke out, and he left New Zealand with the main body, bearing the rank of lieutenant, and attached as a medical officer to tho Field Ambulance. He was on the Gallipoli Peninsula within a week of the landing, and up to and including the Messines engagement he was on active medical service at the west front. In the Messines battle he was attached as medioal officer to the First Battalion, Wellington Infantry. He is now on the medical staff of the Walton-an-Thames Hospital. Major Connor is only 27 years old. Mr T. King, chief postmaster at Dnnedin, starts his holiday on Tuesday, and fs going on tho Mil ford walk. The relieving officer is Mr A. T. Markman, chief clerk. Major G. B. Burlinson, who has been in charge of the industrial school near Levin for the past 15 years, and has been in the service of the Education Department for something like 44 years, lias been retired on superannuation. He was originlaly truancy officer at Auckland, where his good work attracted the notice of the Hon. W. P. Reeves (then Minister of Education), who appointed him and his late wife to the chargo of the industrial school at Look-out Point, Caversham; and on the break-up of that institution as a mixed school he was transferred to Wereroa. Before relinquishing her duties at tho C.P.O. at Dunedin the officers of the department presented Mrs A. Parke with a 400-day clock as a token of respect gained during her lengthy service. The counterwomen aud tho money order and savings bank women made her separate presents. The • clock was presented by the chief postmaster (Mr Theodore King), and Mr J. Hardie responded for Mrs Parke.