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His Excellency the GovernoiV General received Commander A. B. Fanshawe, R.N., at Government House this morning. The following are the guests of their Excellencies at Government House:— The Marquess of Lothian, General Sir John Burnett-Stuart, and Mr. Heathcote Helmore (Christchurch). Mr. A. W. Duncan, sole selector of the Wellington Cricket Association, was congratulated at a meeting last night by the chairman of the management committee of the association, Mr. J. H. Phillipps, on his appointment to the postiion of general manager of Messrs. J. R. McKenzie, Ltd. Mr. J. R. Herd, of Wellington, has been appointed Crown Law Officer in. Samoa for the next three years. With. Mrs. Herd and his young son, he left by the Maui Pomare for Samoa today. Mr. Herd, who was born in 1900, came to New Zealand at the age of six and received -his law degree' at Auckland University College. After practising as a solicitor in Wellington for a number of years, he left for England. He returned last year, and in January last was appointed national production offir cer^to the Commercial Broadcasting Service. . Major J. Struthers.a retired British Army officer, arrived from Sydney, by the Maunganui today. He and Mrs. Struthers intend to spend two or three months on holiday in both islands of New Zealand. • Dr. Graham Cowie, accompanied by his wife, arrived from Sydney by the Maunganui today, having travelled from London to Sydney by air. Dr. Cowie has" been doing post-graduate work in London, Edinburgh, and Vienna for the past two years. He intends to join his parents, Dr. J. A. Cowie and Dr. Helen Cowie, in practice at Masterton. / . A motion that Mr. J. L. Dighton, secretary of the Wellington branch of the Royal Life-saving Society, should be recommended to the \tentral executive in London for a distinguished service medal was carried unanimously at last night's annual • meeting of th» branch. Mr. R. C. Addison, resident inspector of the Bank of New South-Wales, returned to Wellington yesterday after a visit to the Hawke's Bay and East Coast branches of the bank. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 82, 4 October 1938, Page 13
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346PERSONAL ITEMS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 82, 4 October 1938, Page 13
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