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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24960, 22 August 1946, Page 4

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Sir Patrick Duff (High Commissioner in New Zealand for the United Kingdom) and Lady Duff arrived in Christchurch by air yesterday afternoon from Wellington. This evening, Sir Patrick Duff will attend a reception by the Christchurch branches of the Royal Empire Society, the Victoria League, the Overseas League, the Navy League, and the English-speaking Union. Last evening, Lady Duff presented prizes won in Red Cross competitions. Meetings with disabled servicemen’s organisations will be held by the High Commissioner during his visit. Sir Patrick Duff and Lady Duff will return to Wellington by air to-morrow morning.

Two leading members of the United States State Department, Mr Winthrop Brown, chief of the Division of .Commercial Philosophy, ; and Mr William Phillips, special assistant in the field of commercial relations, will arrive in Wellington by air to-day via England and the United States to confer with the Government on the proposed establishment of a world trade organisation. They will discuss with the Rt. Hon. W. Nash proposals to be presented next November to a meeting of 15 nuclear countries, including k New Zealand, concerning world trade. —(P.A.) An announcement that the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. B-. Roberts) would be away from his office for a month on medical advice was made by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) last evening. Mr Fraser added that Mr Roberts’s future course of action in the coming election would be determined on medical advice.—(F.O.P.R.)