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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26034, 24 December 1945, Page 6

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Petty-officer A. Williamson, electrical artificer, has returned from naval service abroad to his parents’ home at Highgate, Roslyn. He is accompanied by his wife and child. In the annual examinations of candidates for certificates under the Mining Act a dredge master’s class B certificate has been granted to Mr G. M. Bradley, Cromwell. Mr A. Caird, Invercargill, has been granted a class A certificate. Professor J. N. Findlay, formerly of the University of Otago, after spending a year as professor of philosophy at Rhodes University College, Grahamstown,.South Africa, has been appointed to the chair of philosophy at the University of Natal. He will go to Pietermaritzburg to take up his appointment in March. General George Carpenter, the international leader of the Salvation Army, accompanied by Mrs Carpenter, is expected to visit Dunedin from January 17 to January 22 in the course of an evangelical campaign throughout the Dominion. He is engaged at present on a similar campaign in Australia. Wing Commander J. M. Checketts, D. D.F.C., of Invercargill, is now administration officer at the Royal New Zealand Air Force station at Wigram. He has succeeded Wing Commander R D. Max. D. 5.0., D.F.C., who has been granted a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force. Wing Commander Checketts was at one time commander of the New Zealand Spitfire Squadron. Passengers who left for the north by air on Saturday were Miss J. .McNicol, Mr and Mrs J. A. Bradley, Mr A. Flynn, Mr W. A. Scott. Mr and Mrs S. J. Ritchie and Mr J. T. Vickers for Wellington, Miss H. G. Jenkins and Miss A. McConnell for Auckland. ■ News has been received that the Rev. E. L Klimeck, chaplain of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, is returning to New Zealand on the Rangitata. Dr Klimeck. formerly vice-rector of Holy Cross Seminary, Mosgiel, left New Zealand in 1936. After visiting many Roman Catholic missions in the Philippine Islands. China and Japan, he joined the Dominican Order and worked in England until the outbreak of war. As a chaplain he served first with the Royal Air Force in England during the years of the Battle of Britain and the German bombing, and later went to North Africa, Italy and Greece. He was one of the first directors of the R.A.F. Catholic leadership courses in England, and later was the organiser and principal of the permanent Catholic leadership school established in Rome for the R.A.F. Central Mediterranean forces.