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Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 266, 10 November 1945, Page 6

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Dr. Walter Robertson, orthopaedic surgeon at the Wellington Hospital, has been appointed orthopaedic specialist for Unrra work in China. Ho is the first New Zealander to be appointed to Unrra staff in China.

The death is reported from London of Mr. Harold Hannyngton Child, for -many years leader-writer for the London ‘Times. He also wrote the articles on the literature of Australia and New Zealand in the Cambridge History of English Literature. An official visit to New Zealand will be paid this month by Rear-Admiral Paul Hendren, U.S.N., commander of a services squadron of the South Pacific Force, United States Pacific Fleet, whoso headquarters is at Noumea. He is due to arrive in Auckland aboard the cruiser Vincennes on Thursday next, and is expected to visit \V ellington between November 20 and 25.

Visitors to Palmerston North for the Worsp-Abraham wedding to-day include Mr. and Mrs. David Collins (Featherston), Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Ashworth (Tikokino), Mrs. F. Ashworth (Castlepoint), Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Ashworth (Maslerton), Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Stanford and Flight-Lieutenant J. Stanford (Marton), Lieutenant John Harris (Loudon), also Mrs. H. E. and Miss J. Worsp (Auckland) and Dr. Eleanor McLagan (Wellington). Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Albrecht, of 190 College Street, Palmerston North, have received advice from the Air Board that their youngest son, Flight Sergeant Ronald Wilfred Albreght, is now presumed to have died on air operations in the Southwest Pacific on January 15, 1945.: Flight Sergeant Albrecht, who was born in Palmerston North, was oducated at the Wadestown and Hokowhitu Schools, and later at the Palmerston North Technical High School where he studied commercial art under Mr. 11. Linley Richardson. He was a keen Boy Scout for many years, and for some time before entering camp was actingScoutmaster of the To Awe Awe troop. Flight Sergeant Albrecht, who was 20 years of age, was employed in the printing trade, entered the Army shortly after reaching the age of IS, but after a few months in the Signal Corps transferred to the R.N.Z.A.F. in June, 1943, where he trained as a fighter pilot. He gained his wings 12 months later. He left for overseas in November, 1944, and lost his life with six of his brother pilots in a gallant though unsuccessful attempt to save a comrade who had been shot down by the Japanese over llabaul Harbour. Up to the latest advice received by Mr. and Mrs. Albrecht, their son had been, listed as missing, believed killed. National Savings The figures for National Savings for the city on Friday, November 9, 1945, Were £3BB 4s. Armistice Day To-morrow (Sunday), November 11, is Armistice Day and special services of Remembrance of the nation’s dead will be held. The congregations at the morning services are asked to be seated at 10.55 a.m. in order to observe the two minutes’ silence. His Worship the Mayor and the city councillors and representatives of the R.B.A. will attend the service at All Saints’ Church.

Export Enterprise “ There seems to be a lack of appreciation in New Zealand for the necessity to work up an export trade outside existing channels,” said Mr. M. G. C. McCaul at this week’s meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, when speaking of the East and the United States as potential markets for the Dominion’s primary produce. New Zealand arid America, he considered, were situated admirably for the interchange of primary produce as the seasons were opposite. “We have a lot to learn about the export business,” he said. “We have well-trained bodies of importers, but no w r ell-trained bodies of exporters. We need them. We are lacking in export enterprise. We have leaned too much on London, and now -we have to learn to lean less oa Lomdoa.”