Personals

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 118, 23 May 1946, Page 4

Personals

The appointment of Dr. E. R. Cooper as director of the Dominion Physical Laboratory, Lower Hutt, has been confirmed. Dr. Cooper has been acting director since the estabishment of the laboratory in 1943.

Sir Alfred Turnbull, former Administrator of Samoa, accompanied by Lady Turnbull, left Auckland by the Monterey this week for Sydney, on route to the United States, where they plan to spend six months. Sir Leonard Isitt, the recently-ap-pointed chairman of the New Zealand National Airways Corporation, left by air for Sydney this week to confer with Mr. A. W. Coles, who has been appointed chairman of the Australian National Airways Commission.

Mr. B. E. Keiller, Palmerston North, representative on the Western District Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand, has forwarded tp ihe annual meeting of the council, held in Wanganui yesterday, his resignation, in view of his appointment to the presidency of the Royal Society.

Dr. Gordon Cook, son of the late Dr. P. R. Cook, and Mrs. Cook, of Masterton, has been appointed director of the city laboratories at Sheffield, England. Dr. Cook was on active service with the R.A.M.C. in the Middle East for five years, and was formerly lecturer in pathology at the University of Liverpool.

Mr. D. Cairns, who has been officer in charge of the information section of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and editor of the journal, “Science and Technology,” left by plane this week for Australia, en route to China, where he will take up a post as fisheries advisory officer to U.N.R.R.A. Mr. Cairns will spend a week in Sydney before proceeding to China. He is one of the outstanding authorities in New Zealand on eels, and has published several monographs concerning them.