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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21647, 18 May 1932, Page 10

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Mr H. K. Wilkinson left for Christchurch by yesterday’s express. Mr J. E. Macassey left for Wellington yesterday by the through express. Mr H. Valder left yesterday morning on his return to Hamilton. Mr M. Chadwick, who has been paying a visit to Dunedin, left On his return t 6 Napier yesterday morning. Mr A. S, Cookson was a passenger by the through express yesterday morning en route for Wellington. The Emery scholarship for book-keeping was yesterday awarded to Mr M. *L. Connelly by the University Council. The members of the Railway Appeal Board—Mr J. G. L. Hewitt (chairman), G. H. Mackley, and J. Elliott—left for Christchurch yesterday by the through express. Mr John Spence, harbour master at Wellington, who has been spending holiday leave in Dunedin, left on his return to Wellington yesterday by the through express. The death occurred at .Thornbury last week of Mr A. Dobbie. Mr Dobbie, who was born in Dunedin, had been manager , of the Thornbury Dairy Factory for over 20 years. At the meeting of the University Council yesterday the diploma of home science was awarded on the recommendation of the Professorial Board to the following students:—Misses Ivy E. H. Arthur, Marjorie J. Barr, Kathleen S. Begg, Helen H. Jackson, Helen A. Nimmo, Muriel G. Owen, Mary E. Shield, Koa M. Tompkins, Helen S. Watson. Advice has been received that Mr C. Woolley, formerly of the Auckland City Fire Brigade, has been appointed superintendent of the Wellington Fire Brigade. Mr Woolley is a son oF the late Mr C. A. Woolley, who was superintendent of the Auckland Brigade for many years. Mr Woolley joined the Auckland Brigade when a youth. He was attached to the Central Station in Pitt street for several years, and was later appointed to the charge of the Western Suburbs station in Ponsonby road, with the rank of senior foreman. During the past few years Mr Woolley was in charge of the Mount Roskill (Auckland Suburban) Station. The appointment of Mr Leonard J. Cronin as editor of the New Zealand Tablet was confirmed at a meeting of directors of the Tablet last night, the vacancy having been created by the resignation of Dr Kelly. Mr Cronin began his journalistic career on provincial newspapers in the North Island, and for several years was a senior reporter on the New Zealand Times. He represented that journal in the Parliamentary Press Gallery during its last years, and when the Times ceased publication towards the close of 1926 he was promised employment by the Sun Newspapers, Ltd., which at that time was about to launch the Auckland Sun. Early. in 1927 he was appointed resident Wellington representative and parliamentary reporter of that paper. After the session of 1928, which constituted a record in length, Mr Cronin was transferred to the. Sun’s Auckland staff, where he did excellent work as a special writer and as a sub-editor till the Sun was purchased by the New Zealand Newspapers, Ltd., in the spring of 1930. Many of the Sun’s large and capable journalistic staff found great difficulty in securing new posts, the economic depression having begun to spread its paralysing hand, but Mr Cronin came south, and was appointed managing-editor of the Waimate Advertiser, .That position he held till Parliament assembled in 1931, when he returned to Wellington, where he represented the Press (Christchurch) and the Otago Daily Times in the Parliamentary Gallery, During the recess periods since then Mr Cronin has served a number of newspapers as special correspondent, and has written numerous articles for The Month (Auckland Catholic organ) and the New Zealand Tablet. _ Mr Cronin, who is in the middle thirties, is one of the ablest of the younger generation of New Zealand journalists, He has a sound knowledge of national and political affairs, and his literary style is smooth and pleasing. Mrs Cronin is a singer whose concert performances in Wellington and Auckland have always been popular.