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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25046, 30 November 1946, Page 8

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VICEREGAL The Governor-General, LieutenantGeneral Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C., and Lady Freyberg, accompanied by members of their staff, left Wellington last night by the steamer express for Lyttelton to undertake official visits to chief towns on the West Coast. Later they will visit Invercargill.—(P.A.)

Bishop Lyons left yesterday for Dunedin, where he will officiate tomorrow morning in St. Joseph’s Cathedral at the annual ordination ceremony for the students of Holy Cross College, Mosgiel. On his return journey, Bishop Lyons will visit the parishes of Timaru and Geraldine, and on Wednesday morning he will preside at Solemn High Mass in the parish church of Methven, the occasion being the silver jubilee of the ordination to the priesthood of the parish priest, the Rev. P. O’Meeghan.

Mr G. M. Keys was honoured at a farewell function held this week by the Optimists’ Club. He was presented with a life membership badge. The president (Mr J. J. Staples) in making the presentation, referred to Mr Keys’s association with the club for about 20 years. Mr Keys will leave on December 26 for Perth, where he succeeds to the post of principal of Scots College.

The appointment as honorary child welfare officers of Major Hannah G. Rogers (Christchurch), the Rev. Roydon P. Andrews (Akaroa), and the Rev. John Mann (Kaikoura) is announced in the Gazette.

Messrs R. Bruce (Mayor of Akaroa), C. J. Marshall (Little Akaloa), J. S. Truman (Akaroa borough foreman), and ,4- G - Foreman (Akaroa County Clerk) were sworn in as Justices of the Peace by Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Akaroa this week.