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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 167, 18 July 1939, Page 6

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Dr. W. I. Cawkwell, of Auckland, ? will leave Wellington this week for _■ London to undertake post-graduate - medical studies, The Rev. Fatne r E. R. Davids, of the Cook Islands, who has been visit- ? ing New Zealand.after spending a holif day in Holland, left on Friday night , by the Matua for Rarotonga. Mr. A. G. Hill, Air Department, on transfer from the Air Ministry, London, who will be the control officer of ■ the Tasman air service, has arrived at • Auckland. The chairman, Mr. N. G. Armstrong, j has been appointed to represent the Wanganui Harbour Board at lhe annual meeting of the New Zealand Industrial Union of Employers at Wel- • lington on July 27. Mr. Donald Ross, who recently un- ; derwent a serious operation, was welcomed back at yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Harbour Board by the chairman, Mr. N. G. Armstrong. “Members are pleased to see you back well and fit again." he said. Dr. E. Hees, of Wiesbaden, G'r- ; many, author of several works on research in gynaecology, and Frau Hees arrived by the Tasman from Batavia in the course of a world tour. The iy will leave for Sydney by the Montciey on August 4. Mr. Vryn Evans, formerly of the Wellington Technical College staff and headmaster of the Motueka District High School for the past two years and a half, has been appointed principal of the Waihi High School. He will take up his new duties this week. Captain W. H. P. Jackson, formerly master of the liner Tainui, which wws recently withdrawn from service, is m command of the Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Mataroa, which arrived al Auckland on Saturday from Southj ampton. He is replacing Captain J. H Gaskell, who has been appointed the company's South Island marine superintendent. Dr. Peter IL Buck delivered Hr' commencement address at the University of Rochester, New York, last month. The university is to confei upon him the honorary degree of doctor of science for work done in the ethnology of Polynesia. Dr. Buck will resume his duties at the Bishop Museum. Honolulu, about the midcii. of this month.