THE ARCHIVES

The relative positions of the General Manager and Engineer and the Harbourmaster at the port of Dundee came pointedly before a meeting of Dundee Harbour Trustees yesterday. Mr B.L. Nairn moved approval of the recommendations with regards to the appointment of a new Harbourmaster and Mr T.B. Taylor put forward a strong plea for a single-headed control of the port administration. He said that exception has been taken to the terms of the advertisement notifying the post of harbourmaster vacant.

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About 2,000 spectators lined the airfield at Riverside Drive, Dundee, yesterday afternoon to watch a display of radio-controlled model aircraft by the East of Scotland Radio Modellers. Twenty planes took part. The “flyers” put the planes through their paces and had the crowd gasping as they dived and looped high overhead. The average speed of the models is about n80mph, but some can travel at 120mph. One of the highlights of the show was a raid on an enemy held control tower.

Stage hypnotists and unqualified hypnotherapists should be banned from using potentially dangerous techniques, according to a Dundee practitioner. Dentist Ernie McAree, a member of the British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy (Scotland), uses hypnosis to calm nervous patients. The society has 400 members and is the only hypnotherapy body in Britain recognised by the General Medical Council and General Dental Council, the governing bodies of the two professions.