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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25101, 17 December 1942, Page 4

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Advice has been received by his parents that Flight Lieutenant A. F. H. Tye will arrive in Dunedin this afternoon. Lieutenant G. R. Milward, Corps of New Zealand Engineers, has been promoted to the rank of captain. A British Official Wireless message states that Air Marshal d'Atier de la Vigerie, who escaped- from France three weeks ago, has been appointed adjutant to General de Gaulle. Mr W. R. Cave, general manager of the Insurance Office of Australia, Ltd.. the head office of which is in Melbourne, has been appointed a director of the company and chairman of the head office board, to fill the vacancy created by the death of Mr C. R. Colquhoun. Mr Cave was born in New Zealand, and is well known throughout the Dominion. The appointment of Mr A. A. Whitehead, a well-known Gisborne solicitor, to the position of judge in the Native Land Court, is announced. Mr Whitehead’s circuit will be in the Wellington and South Island districts, and the appointment dates from January 1. Mr Whitehead, who has teen in practice in Gisborne for nearly 20 years, has had a great deal of experience with the Maori people in that district and on the east coast, and for six years was headmaster at the Te Araroa Native School.

Passengers who left for the north by the airliner yesterday were: Dr Stanley Foster, Mr James A. Park, Mr and Mrs W. D. Mason, and Mr R. Campbell for Christchurch. Mr J. Howley and Mrs J, P. Hannah for Wellington, Mr M, McCrorie for Palmerston North, Mrs R. T. Sands and Mrs N. J. Salter for Auckland. Passengers who arrived by the afternoon plane were: Mrs J. W. Williams from Auckland, Mrs McCormack and Mrs I. Paul from Wellington, and Mr G. Benson from Christchurch. Mr A. T. Donnelly, who has been appointed chairman of the Economic Stabilisation Commission, which has been set up to carry out the Government’s extended wages and prices stabilisation scheme, is chairman of the Bank of New Zealand. Of the other members of the commission, Mr F. D. Cornwell is secretary of the Federation of Labour, Mr A. McLagan is Minister of Industrial Man-power. Mr \7. Marshall is chairman of directors of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company. Mr C. V. Smith is president of the New Zealand Manufacturers' Association, and Mr F. P. Walsh is national president of the Federated Seamen’s Union of New Zealand.