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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25629, 19 October 1948, Page 4

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VICEREGAL (P.A.) WELLINGTON, October 18. The Governor-General (Sir Bernard Freyberg) and Lady Freyberg, accompanied by members of their staff, left Wellington by air this morning to pay official visits to towns in the Bay of Plenty district. Dr. H. R. Hulme, new academic head of Canterbury University College, met members of the college council at the hotoe of the chairman (Sir Joseph Ward) yesterday morning. The Academic Board of the University of New Zealand is meeting in Christchurch this week and Dr. Hulme is attending. On Wednesday evening there will be a social gathering at Canterbury College attended by members of the Academic Board, the college council, and professorial board. Mf L. V. Carmine, of Wellington, ■ has been nominated as manager and Mr V. G. Cavanagh, of Dunedin, as assistant manager of the All Blacks (PA^ 6 Poverty Bay Ru^by Union.— Mr H. P. Bridge, American consular agent at Christchurch, w r as admitted to Lewisham Hospital on Friday for an operation. * Wing Commander J. P. Selby, of the Royal Air Force, is visiting his home in Christchurch for the first time in 15 years. Wing Commander Selby was educated at the Christchurch Boys’ High School, and left New Zealand at the age of 21 to take up a short service commission with the Royal Air Force. He served in Britain early in the war and later went to Souui Africa as a navigation instructor. In 1944 and 1945 he was in command of a Coastal Command Liberator squadron based in Scotland. Mr A. B. Stewart, of Timaru, has been awarded the certificate of merit and gold star badge by the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association. He has been associated * with the Returned Services’ Association for 30 years. He was the first honorary-secre-tary of the Hawera Returned Services’ Association, and has been a vice-pre-sident and a member of the executive of the South Canterbury Returned Services’ Association for some yeara.