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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23701, 28 July 1942, Page 4

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VICEREGAL (P.A.) . WELLINGTON, July 27. The Governor-General (Sir Cyril Newall) returned to Wellington this evening from Wanganui. The Minister of Industries and Commerce (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) will open the new linen flax factory at Fairlie next Tuesday. The Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. J. G. Barclay) is to visit Australia to confer with the Australian Government and a number of primary industry boards on matters of common interest to New Zealand and the Commonwealth. —(P.A.) The Minister of Public Works (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) arrived from Wellington by the steamer express yesterday. ' Professor A. H. Tocker and Dr. H. C. Holland were welcomed at a meeting of the Canterbury University College Council yesterday. They have succeeded Dr. J. Hight and Dr. Ross Hepburn as members of the council. Mr H. B. Oakey was presented with an engraved medal at last evening’s meeting of the Christchurch Bowling Centre, in appreciation of his 14 years’ service as secretary of the centre. Mr Mark Silverstone, a director of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, was a passenger from the north by the steamer express yesterday. Mr A. E. Flower was re-elected chairman of the Canterbury University College Council yesterday. Nominating Mr Flower, Mr J. G. Poison said it was appropriate that he should hold office this year, because it was the fiftieth of his association with the college. Mr Poison was re-elected deputy-chairman. A resolution of sympathy with the relatives of Sergeant ,L. Treleaven, of the reserves department’s staff, who has been reported died of wounds in Egypt, was passed at the meeting of the Christchurch City Council last evening. The reserves committee paid high tribute to Sergeant Treleaven’s work and stated that it was intended that on his return he should be recommended for the position of foreman of reserves in New Brighton. Mr J. Prendergast has been appointed the representative of the Canterbury University College Council on the Akaroa High School Board. Mr T. Nuttall has been elected unopposed as representative of the parents of pupils of the Christchurch and Papanui Technical High Schools to the Christchurch Technical College Board of Governors for a term of three years. The two other representatives are Mrs D. M. Opie and Mr W. J. Walter.