MR. JOHN TERRY, the district organ- ising secretary for London, has been appointed chief organising secretary of the Institution and personal assis- tant to the secretary, a new post which replaces the post of deputy-secretary.

Mr. Terry, who was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Magdalen College, Oxford, was from 1931 to 1937 a member of the Kensington Borough Council. He joined the Institution in 1935 as joint organising secretary for London, and in 1939 became organising secretary of the Outer London District. During the six years of the war he served in the Foreign Office, and returned to the Institution in 1945. In 19t6 he became organising- secretary for the whole of London..