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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 188, 6 May 1940, Page 8

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Vice-Regal. The Governor-General, Lord Galway, formally declared closed the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition on Saturday afternoon. Mr. J. Sutherland Ross has been reelected president of the Otago branch of the Navy League. Mr. A. W. Wellsted, commercial manager of the New Zealand Railways, returned to Wellington on Saturday after visiting Christchurch and South Canterbury on departmental business. Mr. A. I. Murray, apprentice instruction officer for the New Zealand Railways at Wellington, has been transferred to Dunedin as technical costing officer at the Hillside Railway Workshops.

The Ven. Archdeacon W. Bullock, Archdeacon of Wellington, who entered a private hospital in March for an eye operation, is reported to be makino, very good progress. It is expected that it will be about a month, however, before he is able to resume full duties.

Canon D. B. Malcolm, vicar of I-lawera, has not yet recovered from the illness which overtook him on his return to Hawera from Wellington, where for two years he was organizing secretary of the Diocesan Centenary Appeal. Though he is progressing, it is expected that he will have to take three months’ rest.

Mr. William Yates, Wellington, has been appointed secretary of the National Broadcasting Service. He has had long experience in accountancy, departmental administration, and the arrangement and presentation of broadcast programmes. Coming to New Zealand from England in 1912, he joined the Education Department in 1914. lie was appointed accountant to the first Unemployment Board in 1930, and in 1034 he joined the Broadcasting Board as supervisor of plays. Since 1929 he has broadcast as an artist in concerts and plays and has written a number of scripts for presentation by the national stations.

Mr D. H. Wilmot, who has retired from the position of headmaster of Te Aro .School, which he has held for seven years, was the guest of honour at a round of farewell gatherings last week. Eulogistic references to Mr. Wilmot’s services in the cause of education and to the high standard he had set at Te Aro were made by many people. At a gathering of teachers, scholars, and parents, the speakers’were the chairman of the Wellington Education Board, Mr. W. V. Dwyer, a former Te Aro headmaster, Mr. Herd, the chairman of the school committee, Mr. Brown, the assistant master, Mr. McDonnell, and the infant mistress, Miss Webb.