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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26772, 15 May 1948, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr Justice Kennedy will leave on Monday morning for Invercargill, where he will preside at the quarterly session of the Supreme Court, beginning on Tuesday. Dr R. B. Bell, who graduated at the Otago Medical School, will leave today on the first stage of his journey to Edinburgh, where he will undertake post-graduate studies in medicine. The Mayor, Mr Cameron, will leave Dunedin next week to attend a conference of South Island local bodies at the Portage, Marlborough Sounds. He will visit' the Hermitage, Mount Cook, and Timaru on his return journey, and will be absent from Dunedin for about a fortnight. The King has been pleased to approve the appointment of Brigadier R. S. Park, C.8.E., as aide-de-camp (additional) to the King, in succession to Brigadier E. T. Rowlings, C.8.E., according to advice received in Wellington. Mr A. I. E. Jones, inspector of the Bank of New South Wales, has been elected chairman of the Associated Banks in New Zealand in place of Mr P. R. M. Hanna, who is at present in England, and who will be retiring from the position of general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand on his return about September next. Mr Donald George Mcllroy, formerly of Dunedin, and now a civil servant living in Wellington, was admitted yesterday as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court by Mr Justice Kennedy, on the motion of Mr R. C, Rutherford.

Mr E. J. Aim, rector of the Otago Boys’ High School, was yesterday automatically elected to the position of president-elect of the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Association, as he was the only nominee for the office. Miss D. McCartney, of the Wellington East Girls’ College, was similarly elected to the post of vice-president. A resolution of congratulation was passed by the annual conference of the New Zealand Technical School Teachers’ Association yesterday to the Minister of Education, Mr McCombs, on his appointment. This was particularly gratifying, it was stated, as the Minister was formerly a technical school teacher.

A motion of appreciation of the work of Mr W. P. Macdougall (Dunedin) was passed by the annual conference of the New Zealand Technical Schools’ Teachers’ Association yesterday. Mr Macdougall, who is a past president' of the association and has been a member of the National Executive for some years, is retiring from that position.