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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25554, 23 July 1948, Page 6

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VICEREGAL (P.A.) AUCKLAND, July 22. The Governor-General (Sir Bernard Freyberg) and Lady Freyberg con* eluded their three weeks’ cruise of the. South Pacific islands to-day. Pisembarking from the New Zealand cruiser Bellona at Suva early this morning, their Excellencies joined the National Airways Corporation flyingboat at Lauqala* Bay and landed a » Auckland this afternoon His Excellency was attended b? Major the Hon. N. Wigram, M.C., Military Secretary, and Lieutenant D. Loram, R.N., and Flight Lieutenant MCole, D.F.C., aides-de-camp. Lady Freyberg was accompanied by Miss Rosemary Eley. The High Commissioner for Western Samoa (Lieutenant-Colonel F. wVoelcker) travelled to New Zealand with the Vice-Regal party. He will discuss Samoan affairs with the Prime Minister (Mr P. Fraser) before returning to Apia about the middle of next month. Their Excellencies will travel to* morrow to Wellington, where they will resume residence at Government House. Mr A. W. Pickering, who until his retirement was on the staff of the Health Department, Christchurch, will leave for Blenheim to-day on the first stage of his journey to Pasadena, California, where he will rejoin his son, Professor W. H. Pickering, of the Cali* fornian Institute of Technology. Lieutenant-Colonel I. L. Bonifant, D.S.O. and bar, who recently resigned from the New Zealand Regular Forces to rejoin Dalgety and Company, was presented yesterday with a leather travelling bag by the New Zealand Industries Fair executive. The president of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association (Mr F. C. Penfold), who made the presentation, expressed the association’s appreciation of the assistance it had received from LieutenantColonel Bonifant in holding the Industries Fair in the King Edward Barracks last year and this year.