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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20042, 14 September 1939, Page 4

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Rotarian F. W. Browne, vicepresident of the Napier Rotary Club, has been invested as president. Mr. F. J. S. Holden has been appointed agriculture fields instructor for Southern Hawke's Bay. Pilot Officer L. H. McFarlane, Dunedin, who is at present in London, has been promoted to the rank of flying officer. Miss Helen McGregor has returned after spending 10 days as the guest of Mrs. A. W. Marsh, Pongakawa, Te Puke ~.. ..... After 40 years’ continuous member- . ship} Mr. R. McCollum has resigned « from the Marlborough College board of governors, Blenheim, as from October 21. Mr. M. J. Galvin, Lands Department inspector of reserves and supervising field inspector for the North Island, arrived in Gisborne by plane yesterday and left by ihis evening’s plane for Napier i _ ... Tiie following Hawke’s Bay people, who have been on a visit to the Old Country, arrived at Wellington from England: Mr. H. C. Chambers, Mrs. B. M. Coleman, Mr. R. B. Johnstone, Mr. H. McLean Campbell, Mrs. McLean 'amnbell, Miss M. McLean Campbell, ->nd Mrs. R. C. Wilde.

Sir James Elliott, Wellington, and Lady Elliott are expected to return to New Zealand from Britain early next month. On July 25 Sir James had conferred on him by the .Aberdeen Uhiversity the honorary degree of LL.D. This degree was conferred, qu. four distinguished men who were attending the British Medical Association conference in Aberdeen. In conferring the degree, Professor Taylor mentioned that Sir James was a graduate of Edinburgh University, that he had held every important office in the New Zealand branch of the 8.M.A., that he had been editor of the New Zealand Medical Journal-for more than 20 years, and that he had rendered public service of a most distinguished character,