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Evening Star, Issue 22146, 28 September 1935, Page 17

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Bishop Fitchett left by train this morning to hold confirmations in various Southland parishes. Mr J. Dunlop, the South Island representative on the Dairy Board, _ .’ft by the north express this morning en route for Sydney to attend a conference of dairying interests there. Sir James Allen left this morning for Wellington.

Mr S. Hutchison, the honorary representative of the New Zealand Department of Industries and Commerce at Shanghai, was a passenger for Wellington by the north express this morning.

Mr Alexander Watson, who has been adjudicating in the local Trinity College examinations, left this morning foj' Wellington. To attend a refresher course for officers and n.c.o.s at Burnham, Lieutenants A, Munro, J. S. Findlay, J* Hoodie, and V. G. M‘Avoy, and 19 other ranks of the 12th and 14th Batteries went north by the express this morning

Constables W. Cooper, of pWinton* and F. W. Johnsen, of Mangaweka, will shortly be transferred to Dunedin as acting sergeants. Mr Noel Hunt, of Auckland, has been recently accepted by the London Council of the Egypt General Mission, and hopes to proceed to Egypt towards the end of October. He is at. present visiting a number of the South Island centres, and will be in Dunedin on Octobers.

The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on Roy Granville M‘Elroy, of Auckland University College, yesterday by the Executive Committee of the New Zealand University Senate. Mr M‘Elroy graduated Master of Laws in 1929. He gained a law travelling scholarship in 1932 and proceeded to Cambridge, where he qualified for a doctorate in philosophy. The thesis for which he has been awarded his LL.D. dealt with the impossibility of performance of contract. The examiner was Mr J. G- Foster, lecturer in All Souls College, Oxford. Reference was made to the death of Professor J. K. H. Inglis, of the chair of chemistry in the University of Otago, at a meetintg of the Executive Committee of the Senate of the University of New Zealand yesterday (says a Press Association telegram from Wellington), when the following motion was carried:—“ That this committee beard with great regret of the death of Professor Inglis, and places on record its very high appreciation of his services as a professor of the university and as a member of the Academic Board and Senate. Dufing < his many years of service to the- University ho devoted himself with enthusiasm to promoting its welfare on both the academic and the administrative sides, and endeared himself to his colleagues bv his unfailing courtesy and honesty of purpose.” ,