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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27518, 12 October 1950, Page 8

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Professor W. E. Adams, of the University of Otago Medical School, returned to Dunedin by air yesterday after acting as external examiner in anatomy at Melbourne University. Mr G. A. Holmes, superintendent of the Invermay Experimental and Research Station, North Taieri, left by the express for Wellington yesterday. He will return to Dunedin tomorrow. Mr J. Davies, Dominion secretary of the Toe H movement, is at present visiting Dunedin. He hopes to revive the city’s Toe H group, which ceased to function during' the war.

The Quartermaster-general, Brigadier R. C. Queree, and Lieutenantcolonel A. R. Currie, commander, Royal Engineers, visited Oamaru yesterday and arrived in Dunedin last night. They will visit Sutton military camp this morning to inspect army installations there.

Mr W. P. H. Parkinson, A.0.5.M.. A.M.1.M.M., Assoc. 1.M.E., formerly of Dunedin, is representing the Cumberland coalfields at a residential postgraduate course in mining administration and management at King’s College, Newcastle-on-Tyne Students at the course have been selected from all parts of England and Scotland by the Divisional Coal Boards. Mr L. C. Raikes, manager of the Dunedin branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia, Ltd., has received notice of his appointment as assistant manager of the bank’s Wellington office in succession to Mr A. M. Kilgour, who has been appointed manager of the bank at Hobart. Mr L. B. Allan, formerly manager of the bank’s Toowoomba (Queensland) office, has been appointed manager at Dunedin. Mr G. F. C. Tamer, manager of the bank’s Sydney office, now takes over the management of the bank’s head office at Melbourne. Both Mr Tanner and Mr Kilgour have in the past held appointments at Dunedin.