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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25388, 10 January 1948, Page 6

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VICEREGAL (P.A.) DUNEDIN, January 9. Arrangements are now being completed for the visit to Dunedin during the centennial celebrations of the Governor-General (Sir Bernard Freyberg) and Lady Freyberg, who will arrive in Dunedin on February 20, and stay until March 29. There has been a large number of applications from organisations for their Excellencies to attend various functions. The only functions so far announced as being under Vice-Regal patronage are the “Cavalcade of Progress” procession on February 24, at which his Excellency will take the salute, and the St John Ambulance Brigade investiture at the First Church on February 29. Two investitures are to be held during March. A ViceRegal ball will be held on March 18. and a Vice-Regal garden party will also be held during their Excellencies’ stay in Dunedin Their Excellencies will live at “Corstorphine,” the home of Lady Sidey. One of the group of clergy who, on behalf of all Churches, presented to the King and Queen an address of congratulation on the occasion of the marriage of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, the Rev. W. Purves-Boyes arrived at Wellington in the Empire Star. He will represent the Presbyterian Church in England at the Centennial Synod in Otago and Southland, to be held next. March. Mr Punres-Boyes, who is making his first visit to New Zealand, was Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in England in 1946-47. Now retired from the ministry, his last church was St. John's. Kensington. He Will be at St. John’s. Wellington, until he goes south for the Centennial Synod.—(P.A.)

Mr N. H. Barker, assistant traffic manager of Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., will leave Auckland on January 15 for Sydney, where he will take up a temporary appointment as the company’s Australian liaison officer. This position will become vacant for several months during the absence of Mr H. K. Ford, who will go to the United Kingdom late in January to represent Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., during the construction of the four Solent flying boats scheduled to enter the Tasman service late in 1948. Mr Ford has been Sydney liaison officer since August, 1946.