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Evening Star, Issue 26030, 19 February 1947, Page 6

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—Air Passengers.— Passengers from the north yesterday afternoon were Mr G. H. Charman, Mr H. J. Knewstubb, Miss J. Badderley, Mr W. Hewott, Mi* and Mrs IY. C. Jelly, (Mr W< M. Birch, Mrs L. Smyth, Mrs T. Barrow, Mr H. J. McPhail, Mrs E.‘ King. Passengers for the north to-day were Miss N. Fowler (Christchurch), Air J. J. Kenohan, Mr R. K. Levick, Miss M._ B. Law, Mr D. Harris, Mr.C. S. Skipworth, Mr J. Penman, Mr and Mrs E. Paton, Mr and Mrs E. Tamblyn, Mr G. R. Cole, Sir C. Boyle, Mr A. Taylor.

Mr M. R. Skipworth, superintendent of reserves, returned to Dunedin by the express from the nbrth yesterday afternoon. , ....

Mr John F. Hanna, elder son of Mr and Mrs J. V. Hanna, Highgate, ha* been appointed physical director to the Y.M.C.A., Invercargill.' Miss Edith A. Kerr, of Melbourne, the newly-appointed principal of the Presbyterian Women’s Training: Institute, arrived in Dunedin last evening. Miss Kerr travelled from Melbourne by air to Auckland by the Lancastrian plane City of London. ( .1 , Mr H. Chapman, registrar of the University of Otago, has agreed to remain in the service of the ■ University until the appointment of a principal arid for six’ months thereafter. Mr Crosby Morris, who was retiring after 40 years of active association with the society, was thanked for. his services at the annual meeting .of the Otago Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, yesterday. A motion was carried that appreciation of what Mr Morris had done for the society and the welfare of animals' in the province generally be expressed in the minutes of the meeting. At the meeting of the board of managers of the Dunedin Technical College yesterday the chairman (Mr J. J. Marlow) complimented one of the members, Mr J. M. Patrick, on his' election as a full member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering. Mr Marlow said he considered ifc an honour conferred on the school, as Mr Patrick was an ex-pupil, Mr P. O. Smellie said the distinction was one ’of which the school was justly proud and which was richly deserved. i

Brigadier (formerly Major-general) . C/E. Weir, who has-been dangerously ill in a London hospital for the past three months, with complication* . arising from amoebic dysentery, is now reported to be recovering, although his convalescence is likely to he protracted, Brigadier Weir, who formerly commanded the artillery of the Second New Zealand Division, and later - the Division itself when Lieutenant-general Sir Bernard Freyberg was injured; in an aeroplane accident: in Italy," A transferred to the British Army, and commanded a British division in, Italy and Germany. He had resigned this command in order to take a course at the Imperial Defence College when he became iIL At one stage during his illness he was not expected to recover.—N .Z.P. A. Special London Correspondent.