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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24899, 12 June 1946, Page 6

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VICEREGAL (P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 11. Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Frey berg, who is travelling to New ; Zealand by the Ruahine, is expected to be sworn in as Governor-General of the Dominion on Monday. Word was received from the captain of the Ruahine to-day that the ship should reach Wellington by 6 p.m. on Saturday. Lady Freyberg and some of the vice-regal staff are also in the Ruahine. General Freyberg will be sworn m by the Administrator of the Government, the Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Myers. If the day is fine the ceremony will be held on the front steps of Parliament House, but should it be wet, it will have to be held indoors, probably in the Legislative Council chamber. After the swearing in is completed it is expected that the new Governor-General will be officially welcomed on behalf of the Government and people of New Zealand by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser), and that General Freyberg will make a speech in reply. This will be his first speech after assumption of his new office. General Freyberg will open the session of Parliament on June 26. Mr R. M. Algie, the sitting member, has again been nominated as the National Party candidate for the Remuera electorate. His was the only nomination.—(P.A.) Mr Errol Reid (Blenheim) took his place as a member of the Board of Governors of Canterbury Agricultural College yesterday. The chairman, Mr H. S. S. Kyle, welcomed Mr Reid, and said that the board was most happy to have him as a member, as the college regarded itself not merely as a Canterbury college, but as a New Zealand college. Mr A. Mcß. Broderick, New Zealand attorney for the Commercial Bank of Australia, and its Wellington manager for nine years, has been appointed attorney for the bank in New South Wales, and manager at Sydney. He will leave for Australia at the enu of July, and will be succeeded at Wellington by Mr P. W Jackson, who has been manager of the bank’s Londor office for seven years Mr Jackson is expected to arrive at Wellington early next month.— (P.A.) Mr Len Barnes left yesterday for Dunedin, where he will be the guest conductor for the Dunedin Choral Society’s forthcoming performance of ”11 Trovatore.” A tribute to Air Marshal Sir Robert Clark-Hall, who commanded the Royal New Zealand Air Force station at Harewood during the war, was paid by Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park last evening when he attended a civic reception in the City Council chambers Sir Keith Park said that in 1922, when he was a squadron leader, he had attended a Royal Air Force staff college in England, and Sir Robert Clark-Hall was then an air commodore at the college. They had later been together on service in the Middle East. “When Sir Robert Clark-Hall retired about 11 years ago and came to New Zealand it was New Zealand’s gain and the Royal Air Force's loss,’ he continued, “for he was one of the most popular comqgmders in the Royal Air Force.”