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Evening Star, Issue 22618, 9 April 1937, Page 9

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The Hon. F. Jones, Minister of Defence and Postmaster-General, arrived from Wellington by air this afternoon. The Hon. M. Connolly, M.L.C., lefti to-day on a visit to Wanganui. Mr John Anderson (Kurow) was a passenger for Wellington, on the firsti stag© of his t«p to England, by today’s second express. Mr S. O. Sutherland _ left t#-day on. a business visit to Wellington. Mr H. A. Price (Gore) and Mr John Macdonald (Invercargill) were passengers for Wellington by to-day’s express.. Members of the Sea Fisheries Investigation Committee—Mr J. Thorn* M.P. (chairman), Mr M. W. Young (assistant chief inspector of fisheries), and Mr E. Sheed (Department, of Industries and Commerce) —will arrive from Invercargill by train this evening.; Mr G. H. Loney has asked leave to retire on superannuation at the end of this month from the position of Government Printer. He has been associated with the Government Printing Office since 1895. After more than 30 years’ service in the Government Audit Office, Mr- ES. Innes, a senior officer of the department. has retired on account of ill* health, as from March 31. The Rev. C. A. Tobin will retire ati the end of this month after nearly 27| years as vicar of Burwood. The oldest' of the active clergy in the Canterbury and Westland diocese, he is now well into his eighty-first year. The parents of Miss Daisy M’Millan* Lower Kaikorai Valley, Dunedin, have received advice that she is returning from Abyssinia, where she has been attached to the Sudan Interior Mission for the past five' years' and a-half. Mis* M'Millan is accompanied by Mrs CMitchell, : also .of the same missionThey are expected to arrive early next month. . Mr James Fletcher, managing director of the Fletcher Construction Company, will leave on April 16 for Sydney, en route to England. He expect* to be away for six months on the company’s business, and incidentally he will! visit Russia for the purpose of investigating the,building industry there. Dr J. A. - Stallworthy, _ formerly of Auckland, who received his training at the Otago Medical School, has been appointed tn the staff of the Chelsea Hospital. He went to London in 1934 as holder of the New Zealand - Obstetrical! Scholarship, and became a member of the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (London) the following yeargaining bis F.R.C.S. at the end of 1936. The 1936 gold medal of the New Zealand* Institute of Architects has been 1 awarded to Mr Kenneth Aimer, of Auckland, for his design for an apartment building, “ Marino Gardens,” afc' Mount Eden. The award is made annually in England by a jury appointed l by the Royal Institute aS British Architects. Mr Aimer shared in a past award' for the Auckland War _ Memorial Museum, which he designed in partnership with Mr H. C. Grierson and Me 1 M. K. Draffin. The partnership waa also responsible for the Wellington! Citizens’ War Memorial. A Press Association cable messag® from Sydney states that Dr I. Glume Ross has been appointed Australia’s representative on the International Wool Publicity. and Research Secretariat itt London. Dr Ross is at present officer in charge of the _M‘Master Animal Health Laboratory, in Sydney. He had a brilliant career at the university. Hi* salary in the new position will be £1,500 a year. r " :. r ' -TV'! ■ Latest guests at the Grand Hotel are Mrs A. E. Hammer and Mrs Noel Gleeson (Auckland), Mr J. S.. Land .(Wellington), Mrs Harold Gaudin 1 (Auckland), Mr W. G. V. Fernie (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs W. Smith and Miss Daphne Smith (Invercargill), Mrs A. L. Stewart (Riverton) * and Mr J. R. Wilson (Tawanui),