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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1939, Page 4

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Messrs L. H. Warren (Wellington), Casey and Spratt (New Plymouth) are staying at the Empire Hotel, Masterton. The Hon R. Semple, Minister of Public Works, left Wellington by air yesterday for New Plymouth, accompanied by Mr J. Wood, engineer-in-chief of the Public Works’Department. Guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton, include Messrs C. K. Stonefield, McGlyn. A. E. Barnes, Crawley (Wellington) and E. J. Corbett (Mauriceville). » Mr David Allan, Wellington, has been appointed a member of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board He is the representative of the stock and station agents, and succeeds the late Sir William Hunt. Miss Helen Buchanan, Christchurch, will leave on Monday night for Wellington to play in the provincial golf championship at Heretaunga. She will be the guest of Mrs Guy Williams, Heretaunga. The appointment of Lieut.-Col. F. W Kemp, M.C., E.D., M.D., M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond., New Zealand Medical Corps, as principal medical officer, Trentham camp, is announced in the “Gazette” published last evening. This involves his transfer from the reserve of officers to the activp list.

At a meeting, the Wellington Presbytery unanimously nominated the Rev G. H. Jupp for the position of moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church for the year beginning November, 1940. Mr Jupp is minister of Anderson’s, Bay Church, Dunedin, and has given service to the Church as editor of the “Outlook.” as a youth director, and as convener of important assembly committees.

The Rev Brian Kilroy, minister of St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. Wellington, is to be moderator of the Wellington Presbytery during Centennial year. He was elected at a recent meeting of the presbytery, and the decision is said to have special significance because it was the first minister of St Andrew’s, the Rev John Macfarlane, who conducted public worship on Petone beach on February 23, 1840, for the colonists who had just landed from the Bengal Merchant. The personnel of the New Zealand delegation to the conference to be held in Canada on Air Force training was announced last evening by the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones. The delegation will comprise Group-Cap-tain H. W. L. Saunders, M.C., D.F.C., M.M., R.A.F., Chief of the Air Staff, and Mr T. A. Barrow, Air Secretary. During the absence of these officers their places will be taken by GroupCaptain L. M. Isitt, A.D.C., R.N.Z.A.F., and by Mr P. C. Weenink respectively.

Advice has been received in Wellington that Flying Officer Charles Hampton Clark, of the Royal Air Force, died on October 10 as the result of an air accident. No further particulars are known. Flying Officer Clark was born in Wellington, the youngest son of Mr John Clark. Receiving his primary education at St Joseph’s Convent, Flying Officer Clark went on to Wellington College, where he .matriculated at the age of 15. Soon afterward he joined the clerical staff of T. and W. Young. He left there in 1936 to go to England where he was engaged in commercial work for a short time before joining the Royal Air Force.

The second chair in agriculture at the Canterbury Agricultural College, which has been vacant since the retirement of Professor F. W. Hilgendorf, has been filled by the appointment of Dr C. P. McMeekan, B.Agr.Sc., N.Z., Ph.D., Cantab., who has been appointed Professor of Agriculture (animal husbandry). Dr McMeekan spent his early years on a farm, and graduated B.Agr.Sc. at Massey College in 1931, being then appointed assistant lecturer in dairy husbandry. In 1936 he went to England to further his research activities, and widen his experience. He accepted an offer of facilities for research from Dr John Hammond, F.R.S., at the Animal Research Institute, University of Cambridge, and completed two years postgraduate work there, being awarded his Ph.D. for a report on specialised work on animal nutrition and physiology.