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Evening Star, Issue 22443, 14 September 1936, Page 9

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Mr C. Stanley Smith and Mr W* Easton entrained this morning for Wellington, where they will attenu.a meeting of the Newspaper Proprietors’Association.

Mr J. H. Heaney, accompanied by his wife, left by the express this morning en route to Sydney. Mr E. Nicholls, a member of the' Public Trust staff, left by the express this morning on transfer to Napier. Dr D. G. M'Millan, M.P., returned from Wellington by Saturday afternoon’s express. Mr T. Anderson, of Port Chalmers, returned on Saturday to Auckland, where he is at present engaged. Mr P. Hally has retired from the position of Conciliation Commissioner as a result of ill-health. "

Dr Gray, Inspector-General of Mental Hospitals, and Dr' M’Killop, superintendent of the Mental Hospital at Sunnyside, are visiting Dunedin. The retirement is expected shortly to be announced, to take effect from the end of the year, of Professor Hugh Mackenzie, M.A., of St. Andrews, of the chair of English language and literature, Victoria University College, Wellington. One of the college’s four foundation professors, Professor Mackenzie’s retirement (says a Press Association telegram from Wellington) will sever another connection of the college with the year it opened, 1899, and the lone remaining member of the original Professorial Board will then be Professor J. Rankine Byown. The appointment is announced as Conciliation Commissioner at Auckland, commencing to-day, of Mr Robert E. Price, for 10 years inspector of factories at Auckland. He is the president of the Fabian Club and vice-president of the Grey Lynn branch of the Labour Party. He was bom and educated at Liverpool, arriving in-New Zealand id 1909. He became a master mariner at the age of 22, and served in the war As a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve. Returning to New Zealand, he commanded the Canopus, a coastal steamer. He is a keen student of industrial affairs. The Hon. Adam Hamilton has been appointed chairman of directors of thi Southland Farmers’ Co-operative Association. Mr J. M. Watson, of Invercargill, left by the express on Sunday night for Wellington and Sydney on his way to Melbourne, where ne will judge the export lambs at the Royal Snow. Mr T. H. Paterson, of Hokonui, is also making the trip. Dr O. G. Hilliard, an American surgeon, en route to Australia, will spend a couple of weeks in New Zealand on his way home again, when he hopes to meet a number of surgeons in both islands.—Wellington .Association message. Firemen L. R. Osmond and T. R. Turner, of the Central Brigade, were the recipients of certificates of the Institute of Fire Engineers, England, at a social gathering at tfie a station on Saturday night. The certificates were presented by the chairman of the Dunedin Metropolitan Fire Board (Mr S.B. Macdonald), who stated that each, in his spate, time had passed- the very difficult examination set by the institute and was now a fully qualified fire engineer.. He congratulated them both on their success.