INVESTITURE BY GOVERNOR GENERAL
o DECORATIONS PRESENTED AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE, At 8.30 p.m. yesterday the GovcrnorGeucral held ail investiture at Government House, Wellington, when by Command of His -Majesty the Kins ho handed the Letters-Patent of Knighthood to the Hon. Sir William Eraser and the Hon. Sir John Robert Sinclair. Subsequently, His Excellency presented badges of the Third Class of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (C.i).E.) to Mrs. W. F. Massev (Wellington), Mrs. J. P. Luko (Wellington), and Colonel R. W. Tato (Wellington); badges •of the Fourth Class (0.1J.15.) to Lady Carroll (Gisborne), Miss L. Coates (Wellington), Mr. D. W. Duthic (Wellington), Mrs. Lowry (Hastings), and LieutenantColonel A. V. Roberts (Wellington); and badges of the Fifth Class (M.8.E.), to Mrs. Burgess (New Plymouth), Mrs. Coradinc (Mastcrton), Mrs. Crawford (Wellington), Mr. Hope Gibbons (Wanganui), Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. >S. Moorhouse (Wellington), Mrs. Nash (Palmerston North), Mrs. Sherratt (Gisborun), Mrs. Simpson (Hunterville), Mr. W. W. Snodgrass (Nelson). Mr. ,A. Varney (Wellington), and Miss (I. Webster (llerotnunga). • Owing to the unavoidable absence through illness of Mrs. Pomare and Mrs. Ngata, upon whom His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to confer tho Fourth and Fifth Class respectively, of the 'Order, the Gover-nor-General handed their badges to their deputies, Miss Pomare and Mis* Halbert.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 303, 11 September 1918, Page 4
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213INVESTITURE BY GOVERNOR GENERAL Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 303, 11 September 1918, Page 4
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