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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26628, 26 November 1947, Page 4

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Ministerial The Minister of .Finance. Mr Nash who is at present attending the World Trade Conference in Havana, Cuba, has been elected one of the seven vice-presidents of the conference. , Professor G. A. F. Knight, of Dunedin, will be the principal speaker at the breakup ceremony of the Southland Boys High School on December 11. The High Commissioner for Australia, Mr A. R. Cutler, and Mrs Cutler will go to Australia at the end of next week. On arriving in Sydney Mr Cutler will go to Canberra tor discussions before his period of leave. He expects to return to Wellington early in the New Year. The senior trade commissioner of the United Kingdom, Mr R. Boulter, who has been in Great Britain since early in the year,’left London in the Rimutaka last Thursdav and is expected in Wellington on December 29. Mr Boulter attended preliminary meetings of the international trade organisation in London and the second preparatory meeting at Geneva. Mr H. Thomas, former manager of the Strand Theatre, Dunedin, lias arrived in Invercargill to take up an appointment as manager of the Majestic Theatre, succeeding Mr N. Kennedy, who has been transferred to Hastings. Dr Henry R. Hulme, scientific adviser to the British Air Ministry, and a graduate of Cambridge University, has been appointed to the position of academic head of Canterbury University College. Dr Hulme, who is 39, will take up his duties as soon as he is released from the Air Ministry and can be provided \\’ith transport to New Zealand. The appointment was made from 18 applications received from New Zealand and overseas, and was announced by the Canterbury Univorsity College Council yesterday. Dr Hulme is married, with two young children.