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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 292, 8 September 1942, Page 4

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Vice-Regal. Government House, Wellington, September 7. Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and Lady Newall will leave Wellington tomorrow morning by air for Dunedin. They will return to Wellington on Wednesday.

Mr. C. L. Hunter, conciliation commissioner, is in Auckland. Mr. J. Fletcher, Commissioner of Defence Construction, left Wellington by air for Dunedin yesterday. Mr. H. Temple White, who lias been in Dunedin adjudicating at the competitions, lias returned to Wellington.

Sir Francis Frazer, chairman of the War Pensions Appeal Board, has returned to Wellington from Auckland. Mr. Hamilton Dickson has returned to Wellington from Gisborne after adjudicating there in the vocal and instrumental sections of the competitions. Mr. C. W. Hamann, engineer adviser to the Minister of Civil Defence, has returned to Wellington after attending a conference of E.P.S. experts at Canberra, Australia. The Hon. V. Ward, M.L.C., secretary of Metropolitan and Provincial Patriotic Committees, and Mrs. Ward, have returned to Wellington from a few days’ holiday in the country.

Mr. C. Venimore, superintendent of telegraphs at Auckland, is to retire at the end of this month. He will lie succeeded by Mr. C. A. Condie, who at present occupies the similar post in Christchurch.

Mr. N. W. liarton, a son of Mr. and Mrs L. C. Hart on. Wellington, was promoted on August 7 last to temporary lieutenant, R.N.Z.N.V.R., from sublieutenant. He is an old boy of Wellington College and went overseas iu August, 1910, since when he bus been on service round the coast of Britain.