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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24912, 27 June 1946, Page 4

Personal Items

Dr. W. G. Wickremesinghe, assistant director of sanitary services in the Government of Ceylon, is visiting Christchurch in the course of a world tour in which he is studying public health services.

The pending retirement of Mr Fred W. Wilson, secretary of Wilsons (N.Z.) Portland dement, Ltd., since its inception in 1918, was announced at the annual meeting yesterday.—(P.S.S.) Mr C. T. Aschman was congratulated by the annual meeting of the Canterbury Bowling Club on receiving the honour of 0.8. E.

Mr L. Verry (New Zealand Press Association) was elected chairman at the annual meeting of the Parliamentary Press Gallery yesterday. Mr F. J. A. Fox (‘‘The Press”) was elected vice-chairman.

Major F. L. H. Davis, N.Z.S.C., has been appointed assistant-quartermaster general at Southern Military District Headquarters in Christchurch. He replaces Major C. L. Meredith-Kaye, N.Z.T.S., who has dropped from the rank of lieutenant-colonel to become deputy - assistant-quartermaster-gene-

According to a letter received by his parents, Mr and Mrs L. N. Trent, of Nelson, Squadron Leader L. H. Trent, V.C., D.F.C., has booked a passage to New Zealand by sea. This will enable him to travel out with his wife and five-year-old daughter, Christine, who. had booked passages earlier. Thus the airman’s previous plan of flying out to the Dominion about Christmas is cancelled. It is expected that he will arrive in Nelson towards the end of August on about six months’ furlough. —(P.S.S.)