PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24760, 7 December 1943, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Squadron-Leader A. A. N, BrecW D.F.G., left for the south last night —— Mr. I. E. Newton, principal of ft.' . Wanganui Technical College f or 5? years, has resigned. A Mr. W. Marshall, chairman oi'k Tu . tors of the New Zealand Dairy Company, arrived from thn south yesterday. «.v '«?".§ Mr. Ri H. Bartley, general manapft, of the Auckland Electric-Power Board left for Wellington last night to attend ' a conference of power board and Works S Department engineers. Mr. J.f'A. G.Alhrm, Mayor of AticV. land, left' last night for Wellington" where he will attend a meeting of thj executive of the Municipal Association He will return on Thursday morning.'

MR. FRASER'S HEALTH j "WELL ON THE MEND" (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Monday ( The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, who for the past ten dayi | had boon back in hospital, returned home to-(lay. At a State luncheon to-day in honour of members of the Canadian press dele, gation the deputy-Prime Minister, the Hon. W. Nash, said that Mr. Fraser had had .to go into hospital again for the removal of a small abscess. He had come out of hospital that day and wag well on the mend. Mr. Fraser was confined to his home for over a fortnight following the Nga. rimu Victoria Cross presentation celebrations at Ruatoria on October 6, and toward the end of the month he entered Lowisham Hospital for an operation. He left the hospital on November 18, but on November 26 returned there again.

CANADIAN PRESSMEN VISIT TO ROTORUA (0.C.) ROTORUA, Mondaj The delegation of Canadian pressmen who are spending a week in ISew Zealand arrived in Rotorua yesterday and departed in the evening to connect at Frankton with the Wellington express, The party was conducted over the Whakarewarewa thermal area by Guide Rangi and then inspected the Government forestry nursery, Lake Okareka, the Blue and Green Lakes, and Lake Tarawera.

On returning to Rotorua, they Baw the Blue Baths and had a swim in the Ward Bath, afterward visiting Ohinemutu, where Mr. H. Tai Mitchell, C.M.G., showed them through the Anglican Church and Tamatekapua memorial meeting-hou.se. All of the members of the delegation expressed great delight at what they had seen in the Rotorua district and said that it represented a playground and health resort that was of world interest. They would make every endeavour to return for a longer period when the war hajl ended, v " .

AIR FORCE SERVICE AUCKLANDERS PROMOTED Promotion to the rank of group captain has been gained by Wing-Com-ma nder Douglas P. Lee, eldest son of Mrs. P. G. Lee, of Remuera, according to private advice received by hii mother. Group-Captain Lee, who is 34, waa educated at the Remyera School and the New Plymouth Boys' 4 High School. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1931 and has served on stations in many 'parts of the world, including Irak, Persia and Saudi Arabia. He was seconded to the South African Air Force early in the war and is at present attached to the Air Directorate at Pretoria.

Advice has been received in Auckland that Warrant-Officer Gordon Lindsay Kennedy, D.F.C., has been commissioned in the rank of pilot-officer in the Air Force. Pilot-Officer Kennedy was decorated in September last for his work as a bomber captain and pilot. He is 22, and enlisted in the Air Force from Wellington in 1941.