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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 121, 20 April 1940, Page 6

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On account of the illness of the Governor of Malta (Sir Charles Bonham Carter) Major-General W. G. S. Dobbie has been appointed to command the troops hi Malta, and on his arrival there'will assume the office ol acting-Govcrnor, states the Brit is Official Wireless. Appointments affecting officers of the Railways Department in Wanganui have been announced. Mr A, J. Vollamaere, staff clerk in the district traffic manager’s office in Wanganui, becomes traffic inspector in Wanganui. The train-running officer in Wanganui, Mr A. R. McCrae, will become train running officer tin Auckland and will be replaced by Mr A. E. Conley, of the district traffic manager’s staff in Wanganui. Dr. W. B. Higliet, M. 8., C1i.8., F.R.C.S. (England), eldest son of Mr and Mrs D. Highet, ofWellington, who has been awarded the Lord Nuffield Scholarship in Orthopaedic Surgery at the Wingfield Morris Orthopaedic Hospital, Oxford, graduated at Otago University, after winning a Junior University Scholarship from the Otago Boys’ High School. He accompanied the Byrd Antarctic Expedition of 1934 as medical officer, afterward returning with the expedition to America. For some time he studied in the United States under leading orthopaedic authorities. For the past five years he has been engaged in post-graduate medical and surgical work in England.