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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23749, 22 September 1942, Page 4

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VICE-REGAL (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 21. The Governor-General, (Sir Cyril Newall) and Lady Newaffi attended by Captain H. G. Helmore, will leave Wellington to-morrow to pay their first official visits to Dannevirke, Waipawa, and Waipukurau. Their Excellencies will return to Wellington on Thursday. This afternoon his Excellency received Mr R. E. Cox, American Charge d’Affaires.

Mr R. McPherson, Wheat and Flour Controller, left on Sunday for Invercargill. He will return by the end of the week.

A vote of sympathy with the relatives of Mr Charles Todd, who died recently, was passed at a meeting of the Reclamation Board yesterday. Mr J. S. Barnett said the keenness that Mr Todd displayed in his work was an inspiration to other members of the board. Mr E. I P. Meachen. M.P. for Marlborough. will visit Kaikoura on September 22 to discuss the fish supply and other matters concerning the district.

A motion of sympathy with the relatives of Mr A. D. Jackson, who is missing on a climbing expedition in the Tekapo district, was carried last night at a meeting of the management committee of the South Canterbury Rugby Union. Mr Jackson has for many years been closely associated with Rugby in South Canterbury, and represented the secondary schools on the committee of the Rugby Union. Mr J. C. Mercer is a patient in Westland Hospital, and is reported to be making good progress. Pilot Officers Patterson and Baines, of the R.N.Z.A.F., are carrying out pilot duties for Air Travel, Ltd., during the illness of Mr Mercer. The Christchurch Returned Services' Association last evening passed a motion of sympathy with General Sir Andrew Russell (a former Dominion president) in the loss in action of his son.