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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 118, 22 May 1942, Page 4

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Dr. L. H. Briggs, Auckland, and Dr. j L. I. Grange, Wellington, were on Wednesday elected Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand. / Mr. Hendry Luke has been re-elect- !■ ed chairman of the Auckland Harbour e Board for the third term, and Mr. A. i S. Sutherland, M.P. for Hauraki, vicechairman. • Lieut.-Colonel G. Archey, Auckland, - has been re-elected president of the '■) Royal Society of New Zealand. Dr. H. e H. Allan, Wellington, was re-elected i vice-president. Dr. B. T. Hooper was re-elected president of the Wanganui Red Cross , Centre at the annual meeting yesteri day. Rev. J. H. Datson was re-elected t chairman of the executive. A well-known Wellington resident and officer of the Treasury Dcpart- ’ ment, Mr. Gilbert King, died at his home in Karori on Tuesday night. He was 49 years oj age, and had been - ill for some time. Mr. C. E. Bellringer, chairman of J the New Plymouth Harbour Board, has been re-elected to the position lor ’ j the twenty-first time. He has been a '• member of the board since 1911, and chairman since 1922. Brigadier-General Hurley, the United States Minister to New Zealand, will leave Wellington next week on his ; first official visit to the South Island. There will be a civic reception in his ’ honour at Dunedin on May 28. I Dr. C. E. Hercus, Dean of the Medi- . cal Faculty of Otago University, has _ reported that Dr. W. B. Highei. who graduated in 1934, has been awarded the Jacksonian Prize of the Royal College of Surgeons, England. Dr. W. I. Cawkwcll, of Seaview Road, Remuera. has been elected a I Fellow of the Royal College of Surjj goons, England. Dr. Cawkwcll was on j] his way to England when the war n broke out. and he is now with the it New Zealand Medical Corps. The death has occurred of the Rt. is Rev. Mansignor Edge, of Auckland, after a long illness. Born in England in 1875, he was ordained in 1901. He _ had been in the Auckland diocese since , 1905, and parish priest at Parnell since _ 1930. He was made a Domestic Prelate with the title of Monsignor in 1935 { in recognition of his services in the i church. i The Union Steam Ship Company of - New Zealand has received advice irom i Auckland lhat Captain Selwyn Athol - Chatfield, one of its former masters. died there on Sunday last. Captain Chatfield was born in Auckland on May [ 24. 1886, and served on various interj colonial sailing ships before joining the . ; service of the Union Company, on December 3, 1910, as fourth officer o: ! the Atua. He subsequently c.om- , mantled some 22 of the company's vessels. He was in command of the Waipiat.a in December, 1935, when he j was transferred to the company’s shore staff, and was appointed wharfinger al New Plymouth. On account of illhealth he retired from that position on January 31. 1939. and lived in retirei- ment at AiK kiuiui I ;1! his (loath.