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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 168, 19 July 1939, Page 6

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Mr. D. A. Langslow. eighth engineer of the Sussex, which is in port at Wellington, is revisiting Wanganui. Mr. J. Buckley, son of Mr. G. Buckley, conductor of the Auckland Artillery Band, has been awarded a German national scholarship in music. For lhe past two years he has been studying at the Leipzig and Berlin Conservatoria. Paymaster-Commander 11. T. Isaac. H.M.S. Achilles, has been appointed squadron accountant officer temporarily in place'of Paymaster-Comman-der G. L. O. Davis, H.M.S. Leander, who has been appointed temporarily to H.M.S. Philomel for special service. Mr. W. J. Gray, a veterinary sur- | geon formerly attached to the Agricultural Department, with his wife I and family, will leave Wellington on , Friday by the Awatea, to take up an I appointment with the Government of Tanganyika (formerly German East Africa). At Sydney they will join the liner Ulysses for Durban. Mr. W. J. Brown, who has left the Public Works Department where he was employed as a draughtsman, to take up a position in the Railways Department, was farewelled by the staff of the Public Works Office, Wanganui, and presented with a smoker’s outfit. The resident engineer, Mr. G. W. Sampson, and the chief draughtsman, Mr. J. R. Cade, spoke eulogistically of Mr. Brown’s work and extended their best wishes for his future success.