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Evening Star, Issue 23451, 16 December 1939, Page 12

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Lieutenant-colonel A. J. Manson/ who has been in Dunedin selecting recruits for the ground staff of the New; Zealand Air Force, left oh his return to Wellington to-day. Mr Roche O’Shea, secretary of tho New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, left to-day on his return to Wellington. Dr Raymond Kirk has returned on a> fortnight’s leave from Burnham. Mr Chas. H. Freeman, of St. Clair, and late of Wellington, has joined tha Royal New Zealand Air Force as radio operator-mechanic, and is at present at Rolleston House to continue his studies at Canterbury College,, Christchurch. A large gathering of parents and pupils assembled in the Arthur Street School Hall on Thursday afternoon to bid farewell to Mr J. Ironside, who for the past eight years fhas held the position of head master of the school. Tha chairman of the School Committee (Mr W. R. Brugh) made a presentation of a case of pipes to Mr Ironside and a handbag to Mrs Ironside, and, eulogising Mr Ironside’s services to the school, he said that the gifts carried with them the best wishes of the committee and the staff for many long years of (happy retirement. On behalf of . the pupila and parents, the dux boy (Robert Fraser) presented Mr Ironside with a fireside chair, and Mr T. Ritchie, representing the. parents, and Mr A. Hill, on behalf of tihe Primary Schools’* Sports Association, also spoke in eulo? gistic terms of Mr Ironside’s services. Major C V. Sugden, N.Z.S.C., has been appointed second in command of the 27th Machine Gun Battalion, First Echelon, Special Force. He has been acting for some weeks as camp commandant at Waiouru. A graduate of tha Royal Military College of Australia, Major Sugden has been 20 years with, the New Zealand Staff Corps. His appointments over this period included service in India from 1920 to 1922.’ H* has been stationed at Trentham, Palmerston North, Masterton, Wellington, Nelson, and Blenheim; and at the outbreak of war was adjutant of the Ist Battalion of tihe Canterbury Regiment at Christchurch. Promoted captain in 1926, Major Sugden was one of a number of staff corps officers promoted to the rank-of major at the beginnihg of the war.