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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 259, 31 July 1942, Page 4

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Vice-Regal. Government House, Wellington, July 30. His Excellency the Governor-Gen-eral presided at a meeting of the Standing Committee of the National Patriotic Fund Board this morning. Ministerial. The Hon. IL G. R. Mason. Minister of Education, returned to Wellington yesterday from Auckland. The Hon. 11. T. Armstrong, Minister of Public Works, will return io Wellington today from the South Island. The Hon. P. K. Paikea, Minister in Charge of the Maori War Effort, returned to Wellington yesterday from Auckland. Mr. F. Maurice Clarke, manager of Union Airways, is In Auckland. Mr. M. F. Yigeveno, Consul for the Netherlands in Wellington, travelled to Auckland this week. Mr. K. T. .lenssen, acting chief engineer of the Wellington Harbour Board, is absent on a visit, to other port authorities in the Dominion. Mr. J. L. Menzies, acting Australian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand/ is at present Visiting Australia on official business. Mr. F. R. Flatman, Woodbury, Geraldine, has been appointed a member of the Main Highways Board ns the successor to the late Mr. C. J. Talbot. Mr. Flatman, who is a farmer, is well known in South Canterbury, and has been connected with local bodies in the Canterbury district over a long period. He is a member of the Geraldine County Council and has been n member of the executive of the New Zealand Counties’ Association for over 20 years. Mr, J. M. Bertram, a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, is a prisoner of war in Hong Kong, according to advice received in Auckland. Mr. Bertram spent a number of years in China and did outstanding wort- for the China Defence League and (ho International Peace Hospital. He was appointed Press attache to the British Embassy at Chungking and later served with the Volunteer Coastal Battery at Hong Kong during the Japanese attack. A fellow-prisoner who escaped has reported him to lie safe and well when lie left Hong Kong.