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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1939, Page 6

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Dr. T. A. Watson, who. recently had to enter Glenwood Hospital for treatment, is progressing well. He hopes to be able to leave hospital in a few days’ time.

Mr K. Christie, of Canterbury University College, and a former pupil of the Wairarapa College, has been successful in passing his final for the Bachelor of Engineering Degree. Mr D. P. Sheppard, who recently resigned his position as manager of the Produce Department of the W.F.C.A., has now been succeeded by Mr R. H. Brewerton, who was previously associated with Mr Sheppard in that department. Mr Sheppard was associated with the W.F.C.A. for over 14 years and Mr Brewerton has already seen 20 years’ service with the firm.

The following officers were elected at the second annual conference of the Funeral Directors’ Association in Christchurch yesterday: —President, Mr C. W. Tyler (Rangiora); council, Messrs W. H. Tongie (Auckland Association); C. Mclntyre (Wellington Association); A. H. Marker (Canterbury Association); G. T. Thorn (Otago-Southland Association); headquarters, Messrs N. I. Clark, P. Robertson, J. R. Croft, W. W. J. Hall; auditor, Mr J. W. Jack, Wellington.

Professor R. S. Aitken, recently appointed to the chair of medicine at Aberdeen University in succession to Professor L. S. P. Davidson,- now at Edinburgh University, delivered his inaugural lecture at Marischel College last week on “Medicine in the University.” Dr Aitken was a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar for 1924. Last October the King, on the recommendation of the Secretary of State for Scotland, approved the appointment of Dr Aitken as regius professor of medicine in the University of Aberdeen. An announcement that the Government has decided to send the Controller of the Commercial Broadcasting Service, Mr C. G. Scrimgeour, to the United States of America and Canada on a four months’ tour of investigation and research, is made by the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon M. J. Savage, in the official journal of the New Zealand Labour Party. Mr Savage said that the United States was the home of commercial broadcasting, and whatever was new in the business would be investigated by Mr Strimgeour for the benefit of listeners in New Zealand.

Mr Alfred McCarthy, registrar of the Supreme Court and official assignee in Invercargill, has accepted an appointment as judge of the Native Land Court for the Cook Islands, with headquarters in Rarotonga. Arrangements are being made for Mr McCarthy to gain some experience in the Native Land Court in New Zealand before he sails for the islands and it is hoped to release him from his present duties at the end of the month. Mr McCarthy, who was born in Greymouth, is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, having studied law after he entered the Department of Justice. He left the Government service in Auckland and went to Samoa in 1921 as registrar of the High Court. He was afterward appointed Crown Prosecutor and later judge of the High Court. He returned to New Zealand in 1934.