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Evening Star, Issue 22686, 28 June 1937, Page 9

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Mr J. H. Gilbert, general traffic manager of the Union Steam Ship Company, arrived from Welling'on yesterday by plane, and travelled to Invercargill to-day by the 8.33 express. „ Mr J. A. Rhodes, local employment officer of the Soldiers’ Civil Re-estab-lishment League, left for Wellington on Saturday to attend the annual conference. Advice has been received from London that Mr L. F. Moller, 1935 Rhodes Scholar, has passed with distinction tha degree of B.C.L. (Oxon). , Mr T. Vernon Griffiths, of Dunedin, and Mr Roff Hepburn, of Christchurch, were awarded the degrees of doctor of music and doctor of laws respectively by the New Zealand University Senate on Friday, on the re. commendation of the eraminers. At the monthly social evening of tha St. Andrew’s Society of Otago on Saturday the president (Mr J. Jeffrey)’ made reference to the early departure for the Homeland of Nurse Jardine, who was leaving to reside in Carlisle (England), and Nurse Alice M. Paul, who was returning to Thomliebank, Renfrewshire, better known as Rouken. Glen, in Scotland. At the conclusion of the social those present sang ‘ Auld Lang Syne,’ and good wishes for a pleasant and happy voyage were tendered to Misses Jardine and Paul. A British official wireless messags from Rugby states that Sir George Has* well, a former president, of the Federal tion of British Industries, has been ap pointed chairman of Imperial Airways in succession to Sir Eric Geddes.

New guests at the Grand Hotel are Messrs W.- N. Nonvood, W. E. Hill, L. E. Arnott, H. G. Williams, M. C, Smith, John F. Lawson, and A. G. Langley (Wellington), Mr and Mrs R. A. M'Dowell (Oamaru), and Mr Robert W. M'Creath (Gore).