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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26352, 6 January 1947, Page 4

PERSONAL

Ministerial The Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, arrived in Dunedin on Saturday afternoon. He will be at the Ministerial rooms in the Chief Post Office to-day, and will leave for Wellington tomorrow. Mr W. R. Clarke left for Wellington on Saturday. Dr Hugh Stevely left for Auckland on Saturday morning to take up a position at the Cornwell Park Hospital. Private advice has been received that Mr Vernon Bartlett, M.P., is not now coming to New Zealand, but is proceeding from Capetown to India. The New Zealand runner, Dr J. E. Lovelock, has taken up an appointment as director of rehabilitation at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, reports the New Zealand Press Association special correspondent in London. This is a new department, which will d eal with special physical training treatment for seriously injured ex-service-men. Dr Lovelock did the same type of work during .the war when _in charge of the army physical training section at Aldershot. Passengers who left for the north by air on Saturday were Miss J. McLaren for Christchurch, Mr F. S. Laycock, Mr J M. Gilchrist, Miss K. M. Flemming, Miss V. Bagley, Mrs V. Kofoed, Mr W. L. Dawson, Mr H. McGill and Mr N. R. Driver for Wellington, 1 Mr J. Grieve, Mrs J. Grieve, Miss F. Grieve, Mr R. Ritchie and Mrs R. Ritchie for- Auckland.