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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26120, 24 May 1950, Page 6

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VICEREGAL (PJew Zealand Press Associationf WELLINGTON. May 23. Mr F. W. Doidge, the Minister of External Affairs, was received by the Governor-General (Sir Bernard Freyberg) to-day. Their Excellencies were later guests of honour at a reception held by the Wellington branch of the Travel Club. In the evening they were guests at a dinner given by the High Commissioner for Australia (Mr A. R. Cutler) and Mrs Cutler. Lieutenant-Colonel J. B. Harrison, military secretary at Army Headquarters. Wellington, and the matron-in-chief of the New Zealand Military Forces (Miss E. C. McKay), arrived in Christchurch yesterday morning, and will leave for Wellington this evening. Lieutenant-Colonel Harrison is visiting Southern Military District Headquarters and Burnham Military Camp. Miss McKav will inspect the Burnham Camp hospital. Major R. W. K. Ainge has left Southern Military District Headquarters to take up his new duties as deputy-assistant director of supplies and transport at Army Headquarters. Wellington. Mr N. H. Taylor. Assistant Director of the Soil Bureau of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Rese.-rrh. will leave Wellington on Friday in the Coptic to attend the fourth International Soil Congress. This will begin in Amsterdam on July 24. Mr Taylor will give a paper >it the congress on soil classification in New Zealand. Before returning. Mr Taylor will visit the Soil Research Institute in Britain.— (P.A.) Mr G. Malcolm Jones has been elected an associate member o r the Institution of Civil Engineers. London. Mr Jones, who was formerly with the Ministry of Works in New Zealand, is an engineer with a large firm of contractors in London. Mr H. E. Caplen has been appointed a junior assistant engineer to the Christchurch Drainage Board.