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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19670, 12 December 1933, Page 8

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Mr E. Macdonald and Mr D. C. Kidd left by the express for the north yesterday to attend the meeting of the Land Board in Christchurch. Mr M. H. Richards, who underwent an operation in Dunedin, is making good progress, and will be able to return home within a fortnight. Mr S. Hollander, the well-known international Rugby referee, who has been residing in Auckland for the last five months, has been transferred to Christchurch. Mr W. Benzies, secretary of the New Zealand Fruit Board, is due to arrive in Auckland by the Rangitata on December 21. Mr C. Higgs, of Mapua, Nelson, will be a fellowpassenger. Mr J. McCort. a member of the Timaru Unemployment Committee is at present indisposed, arid the committee at a meeting held last night, decided to forward a letter of sympathy to him, and expressing a hope that he would enjoy a speedy recovery. Wing Commander S. Grant-Dalton, Director of Air Services In New Zealand from 1929-31 was a passenger by the Monowai which arrived at Wellington from Sydney yesterday. He has returned from England to make his home permanently in New Zealand. He was accompanied by his wife and family. Consequent on the retirement of Mr J. Lyons, M.R.C.V.S., the appointment was announced yesterday of Mr W. C. Barry, M.R.C.V.S., to succeed Mr Lyons as director of the livestock division of the Department of Agriculture. Mr Barry has been superintendent of the live stock division since February 1926. Dr. Gordon A. Irwin, youngest son of Mrs R. and the late Mr. Robert Irwin, Wanganui, has accepted an appointment on the staff of the Wanganui Hospital Board. Dr. Irwin • is at present spending a few days with relatives in South Canterbury after completion of his final degree examination at the Otago Medical School. Dr. Garth Stoneham, senior house surgeon at Wellington Hospital, has been awarded the Auckland Travelling Scholarship for Obstetrics for 1933. This entitles him to a six months' course in the Women's Hospital at Melbourne and to 18 months’ instruction in England. Dr. Stoneham is a son of Colonel A. Stoneham, now of Gisborne, and formerly of Dunedin. The Governor-General, who intended to go into residence at Auckland this month, has revised his plana owing to the Parliamentary session. Their Excellencies will spend Christmas in Wellington. Early in February they will leave for Russell in the Government steamer to take part in the celebrations at Waitangi. and will return to Auckland in mid-February to go into residence. The Chair of History at Auckland University College is to be filled next year by Mr James Rutherford at present on the staff of the University College, Southampton, England. The appointment was made at a meeting of the University College Council, Mr C. W. De Kiewiett, who was appointed to the chair last month, having intimated through the University Bureau of the British Empire that he was compelled to withdraw his application. Mr C. W. R. Dart M.A., son of Archdeacon Dart, of Nelson, has been appointed to a position on the staff of the Geelong Grammar School, Australia. one of the leading secondary schools in the Commonwealth. Mr Dart, who was formerly a member of the staff of St. Andrew’s College. Christchurch, has recently returned from England and the Continent, where he pursued a post-graduate course of study. He will take up hi* duties in Victoria at the beginning of next year.