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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26228, 12 August 1946, Page 4

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Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral, Sir Bernard Freyberg, and Lady Freyberg, returned to Wellington yesterday morning in the interislqjrd steamer from Lyttelton.

Mr L. B. Bewley, of Dunedin, has been admitted to membership of the Institution of Electrical Engineers as graduate (Graduate 1.E.E.). Mr George A. Thomson, veterinarian attached to the Department of Agriculture, has taken up duty at Invercargill in succession to Mr J. Danskin, who retired several months ago. Mr Thomson has been stationed at Auckland and Duedin during the past six years. More than 30 years a Ministerial secretary, Mr G. F. Dixon, at present private secretary to the Attorneygeneral and Minister of Justice, Mr Mason, completed 50 years in the civil service on Saturday. Mr Dixon has been private secretary to nine Ministers of the Crown. He started and will complete his career in association with the Department of Justice as his first appointment in August, 1896, was as a cadet in the head office of that department. He came to Wellington after being educated at the Ashley School and Christchurch Boys’ High School. He was also a foundation student at Victoria College, Wellington, and is a life member of the Students’ Association, in which he was many times an office-bearer. Mr G. R. Mitchison, K.C., a British Labour M.P., chairman of directors of the Martha Gold Mining Company (Waihi), Ltd., and husband of the wellknown novelist, Naomi Mitchison, arrived at Auckland by flying boat from Sydney on Friday. He travelled as far as Australia by the Hythe flying boat. He will spend about a week in New Zealand inspecting the company’s mine at Waihi, and discussing company affairs in Wellington. On a brief visit to New Zealand .after many years’ absence, Dr J. C. Smith, lecturer and demonstrator in chemistry at Oxford University, since 1928, and his wife ,a physician, who practises under the name of Dr Vera Walker, arrived at Auckland by air on Friday. Dr Smith is a son of Mr H. G. Smith, of Wellington, and his wife is a daughter of Mr and Mrs A. E. Reader, of Masterton. They are visiting the Dominion at the invitation of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Dr Smith stated that he had come to meet New Zealand scientists to discuss research problems.