PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24747, 22 November 1943, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. V. H. Dearsly returned from tha south' on Saturday morning.

The Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister of Mines, arrived from Wellington on Sat. urday- He is at the Station Hotel.

Brigadier H. E. Avery, C.M.G., C.8.E., D.5.0., Quartermaster-General of the New Zealand Military Forces, arrived from the south on Saturday and returned last night.

Sir James Grose, president, and Mr. H ~ Christie, chief commissioner of the Bov Scouts' Association of New Zealand arrived in Auckland on Saturday, and'will leave this morning for NorthAuckland to stimulate interest in the Bov Scouts.

Mr. J.' Healv, national secretary of the Australian Waterside Workers' Federation, arrived from Sydney on Saturdav by a Tasman Empire Airways flying-boat." He left last night for Wellington to attend the annual conference of waterside workers to be held this week.

MEDICAL CONFERENCE CONTROL OF TUBERCULOSIS GATHERING IN AUCKLAND A conference of doctors and representatives of hospital boards on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis will be held in Auckland to-morrow and Wednesday. The first day will be taken up with technical aspects of the subject, when a departmental statement, including a recommendation for a new form of notification, will be made, and reports received from medical officers, clinicians and radiologists. Dr. C. A. Taylor, director of the tuberculosis division, Health Department, will preside. Associated with Dr. Taylor will be Mr. A. O. V. Keisenberg, secretary of the department, medical officers of health, hospital superintendents, sanatoria superintendents and other specialists. These professional delegates will be joined on the second day by lay representatives of the hospital boards in the Auckland provincial district, including the VVaikato and Bay of Plenty. Thirty-three professional representatives and 31 other delegates are expected to attend.

The opening address at the p'enary session will be given by the Minister of Health, the Hon. A. H. Nordmeyer, and the matters for discussion will be recommendations of professional members from the previous day, accommodation requirements, administration of a proposed sanatorium for the northern part of the North Island, rehabilitation and vocational training and the establishment of an association to assist official agencies in the control of the disease.

NEW ZEALANDER'S V.C. PRISON CAMP CEREMONY > (Special Correspondent) LOXDOX, Nov. 20 A first-hand account of how Sergeant J. D. Hinton, Y.C., of Southland, New Zealand, was informed by the Germans of his decoration has been told by an Englishman who was in the same prison camp at the time and has now been repatriated to Britain. He is John Cruesemann, R.A.M.C., who was taken prisoner at Dunkirk and was one of eight men sharing a hut with Sergeant Hinton at Stalag IX.C, 60 miles from Kissell.

Cruesemann said; "We all -knew Sergeant Hinton had won the Victoria Cross and that his ribbons had arrived some time previously from London. We were therefore rather mystified one evening last summer when a parade, was announeed. We thought it must be for some kind of search. We were further surprised when' a German officer arrived, which was very unusual. "He called Sergeant Hinton to the front of the parade. Sergeant Hinton stood there, looking uncomfortable and equally mystified as we were. We were called to attention. Then we.stood at ease, but- the officer demanded that we be, again called to attention, and then he addressed the parade, himself standing at attention. "He said in German that the German High Command had received a communication that King George had been pleased to decorate Sergeant Hinton with the Victoria Cross. The officer then turned toward Hinton, saluted and asked that an English translation be made. It was all very correct. We held a celebration that night and chaired Sergeant Hinton round the camp." Cruesemann added that Sergeant Hinton was held in the highest regard in the camp both by the prisoners and Germans, not only because be had won the Victoria Cross, but for his own personality. "Sergeant Hinton was a kind of godfather to the camp," ,he added. "He seemed to manage to ensure that everyone got a fair deal, which nobody else succeeded in doing. He has fully recovered from his wounds, and is in very good spirits. He asked me particularly to call on Mr. Burdekin, head of the New Zealand Prisoner or War Department in London, to give him good wishes and thanks from the prisoners."

OBITUARY MRS. HANNAH BUCK The death has occurred of Mrs. Hannah 13lick, wife of the late Air. Thomas Blick, of Devonport, aged So. A daughter of Mr. H. \ ickery, who arrived in New Zealand by the Merchantman in 1552, she was mam™ to Mr. Blick in 1876 at Taurauga, where lie was a member of the Armed Constabulary. Their diamond wedding was celebrated in 1937. Sho is-survived by one son, one daughter and a number of grandchildren. MISSING MAN Inquiries are being, made as to the whereabouts of Mr. Charles Edwin Mills, aged 64, widower, a gardener, of 45 Glen Road, Stanley Bay. who has been missing since Friday. He is of medium build. He has grey hair and was wearing working clothes when last seen. FLYING-BOAT ARRIVES Seventeen passengers were brougnt to Auckland on Saturday from Sydney bv a Tasman Empire Airways flyingboat. They included Sir Walter T. Layton, Sir Neville Pearson, and Mr. S. Storey, members of a British newspaper prppriotors' group which has been visiting Australia. The other passengers included: Mrs. D. Clarke and Mrs. E. I. Elder, Messrs. J. Healy, E. Tickerman, J. W. Hadfield. T. Johnson. A. Marsden, W. F. Locke. F. M. Lockwood, J. J. Enwright, F. H. G. Fowler and A. T. Tvler.