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VICEREGAL The Governor-General (Sir Bernard Frcyberg) and Lady Freyberg are among the 140 guests of the New Zealand Shipping Company travelling to Auckland from Wellington by the company’s new passenger liner Rangitoto. (P.A.)
Major H. S. N. Robinson, formerly of Wellington, who for 25 years has been general secretary and treasurer of the Diocese of Melanesia, and has served four bishops, has resigned from the general secretaryship of the Melanesian Mission. His successor will be Mr H. W. Bullen, who has had 10 years administrative experience in the Solomon Islands. Major Robinson will relinquish his duties at the end of next month and return to Sydney to live. Born in Scotland, Major Robinson came as a youth to New Zealand, and served in the South African and First World Wars. — (P.A.)
Mr Claude L. King, the New Zealand Press Association correspondent with the All Blacks in South Africa, and a journalist on the staff of the "Dominion,” Wellington, will pay a visit to his father, Mr W. S. King. Sheldon street, Opawa, on Saturday. Mr King will arrive in New Zealand with the All Black team on Friday.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25933, 13 October 1949, Page 4
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