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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23673, 25 June 1942, Page 4

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VICEREGAL

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 24. The Governor-General (Sir Cyril Newall) to-day received the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser). His Excellency later received Dr. J. .Leslie Will, chairman of the Joint 'Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society.

Brigadier-General P. J. Hurley, United States Minister to New Zealand, will arrive in Christchurch by air today. To-morrow he will inspect defence stations and will be the guest of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce at a private luncheon. At the civic reception to Brigadier-General Hurley on Saturday morning the speakers will be the Mayor (Mr E. H. Andrews) and the Minister for Supply (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan). The United States national anthem, “The Star Spangled Banner,” will be sung at the reception by the Orpheus Choir under the direction of Mr F, C. Penfold.

Captain H. Kitson was elected chairman of the Canterbury Patriotic Fund Executive yesterday, and Mr F. W. Hobbs was elected vice-chairman. The fund is that raised in the last war. Mr L. B. Evans, who has been chairman of the North Canterbury Hospital Board for the last four years, was reelected, when the board met yesterday, for a further term of two years.

A motion of sympathy with the relatives of Dr. John Guthrie, who died recently, was passed by the North Canterbury Hospital Board at its meeting yesterday. Dr. Guthrie was an honorary surgeon at the hospital.

Mr J. W. Watson, formerly of the “Manawatu Evening Standard,” has joined the literary staff of the "Greymouth Evening Star.” Mr I. L. M. Coop was unanimously appointed the delegate of the North Canterbury District of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union to the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board at a meeting of the executive of the union yesterday afternoon. • It was agreed that a representative of the union was necessary on the Meat Board, and in efforts to ensure this branches of the union would be circularised for support for Mr Coop, Sympathy with Mr T. H. Langford in his illness was expressed at a meeting yesterday of the executive of the North Canterbury district of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. Mr Langford’s appointment to the position of zoning officer for the South Island was announced recently. Members agreed they could be sure of the same sympathetic treatment [rom Mr Langford in his new position as they had from him when he was No. 3 Transport Licensing Authority. He had always studied the interests of the farmer.

• News of the appointment of Lieu-tenant-Colonel E. T. W. Love to command the Maori Battalion in the Middle East has been received with the utmost pride and gratification by the Maori people throughout the Dominion, and the Hon. P. K. Paikea, member of the Executive Council representing the Maori race, has sent him a message of congratulation, stating that the honour and confidence placed in him is one of which the Maoris are justly proud. The Maori people send their greetings and message of goodwill and love to bim. states the message, and also to the officers and men of the Maori Bat•talion, together with an assurance of untiring efforts to keep the home front intact.—(P.A.)

Difficulties for Farmers

“The powers that be don’t seem to understand the trials that the primary producer has to face. Farmers are now up against some major problems, which in the coming year will need the close attention of all members and all branches.” Mr R. G. Bishop (chairman) said when at a meeting yesterday afternoon of the North Canterbury district of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union he welcomed several new members to the executive. The war, with all it brought in its train—shortage of materials, shortage of manpower, shortage of shipping, and the difficulty of transport—was one great problem. Mr Bishop said. "And then, as you all know, we are up against legislation—the socialisation of all industries which we consider is not in the interests of this country,” Mr Bishop added.