PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL

Dr. J. S. Beedie. Dannevirke, has been appointed medical superintendent of the Dannevirke Public Hospital. Dr. C. C. MacLaurin has been appointed deputy-medical superintendent.

Mr and Mrs J. Ackerman, Totara Street, Lansdowne, have received word that their son, Sergeant Observer Darral Ackerman, has completed his training in Canada and that he has arrived safely in England. Mr Maurice Ralph, personal representative for David O. Selznick, New York, is at present in Masterton in connection with the presentation of “Gone With the Wind” at the Regent Theatre.

Mr R. P. Furness, Avho has been elected president of the Marlborough Automobile Association for the twentieth year, has been elected to life membership of the Marlborough association in recognition of his services. At a meeting of the North Island Voluntary Aid Committee held in Palmerston North recently Mrs A. F. Stewart, Masterton, and Mrs Duncan Cook were elected members of the Voluntary Aid Council Avhich meets in Wellington quarterly. Dr. M. A. Falconer, son of Dr. A. R. Falconer, Dunedin, has been appointed assistant surgeon on the staff of the Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England. Dr. Falconer, who is 31 years old, left New Zealand in 1935 to further his studies in London, Aberdeen, Munich, Vienna and at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He was the first medical student in the world chosen for a Nuffield Fellowship.