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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17954, 5 December 1932, Page 3

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Hr. Beaumont has returned to We! lington from England after an absence of several years spent in Loudon. A slight improvement is reported in the condition of Cardinal Bourne, who is suffering from gast-rb influenza at Romo.

• The congregation of St. John’s Pres byterian Church, Hawera, has decided on a call to the Rev. A. G. Irvine, of Ashburton. Hr. Eldon Litchfield. Wellington, who has.been continuing his medical studies in Europe, has been admitted as a mom her of the Royal yoilogc of Physicians. Loudon. Dr. Litchfield is now in Vienna.

Captain G. 11. Clifton, of the New Zealand Staff Corps, accompanied by 'Mrs. Clifton, sailed from Auckland foi London by tlio motor-ship Port Dunedin Captain Clifton will undergo a course of two years’ instruction at Staff College. Cambfi'lev. Mr. James A. McPherson, superintendent of public parks, gardens and reserves at Invercargill, has been appointee! by the Christchurch Domains Board as, curator of the Botanic Gardens arid parks at Christchurch. There were's4 applicants from all over- the Dominion. Mr. 11. V. Dodson, of London, assistant editor of the Round Table and formerly of the Economist, is a visitor to Dunedin, lie is making contact witn the Round Table groups in Ne\y Zealand, and generally acquainting himself with the political' and economic cohdi turns of tiie country, following travels for a like impose iii India and Canada Among the passengers on .the Ruahiue, London, is Mr F. C. Chichester. • > the well-known New Zealand aviator, ■who has achieved fame through his flight from England to Australia in 1930. and from New Zealand, to Norfolk Is-

land and from Norfolk Island to 'Lord Howe Island early last year. Mr Chicliester was seriolslv injured u lieu he crashed in Japan in August, 1951, while attempting a flight, to England, \ia the East, and across America, and the At- - lantic Ocean. Ho lias since, been recuperating in England. In November. 1931. Mr. Chichester was presented with the : Johnston Memorial Trophy for the best feat of air navigation during the year, for his New ZeffiaiKl-Norfplk IslandLord Howe Island flight. Two ' recommendations have been made for the research scholarship at Manchester University offered by the Manchester branch of the English Speaking Union. They are Dr. A. 11. Platts-MiUs and Mr. A, E. Hurley. Hr., .Platts.-Mills is a graduate in.mcdi-c-ine of the] New Zealand University and proposes to pjpceqd to England for a special study of obstetrics and gynecology. While in Otago she was lecturer in : anatomy .to the school for massage for two years and while a house surgeon at the Wellington Hospital has been leeturer in physiology to the* .purses there. Mr. Hurley is at piresgat practising as a barrister, and solicitor.