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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26125, 30 May 1950, Page 4

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The Prime Minister <Mr Holland) presided yesterday at a State luncheon at Auckland in honour of Lord Macdonald of Gwaenysgor. He was occupied with interviews throughout the afternoon and last evening he met National Party delegations Irom all parts of the Auckland province. Mr Holland will drive to Hamilton this morning and will open the Waikato winter show in the afternoon. He will be tendered a civic reception by the Hamilton City Council in the evening and will later return to Wellington.— (P.A.) The Minister of External Affairs and Island Territories (Mr F. W. Doidge) left Mechanics Bay by flying-boat last night on the first stage of an official visit to Western Samoa, where he will be the central figure in kava and flagraising ceremonies. The Minister was accompanied by Mrs Doidge, his secretary. Mr Peter Jeffery, and the secretary of the Department of Island Territories (Mr R. T. G. Patrick).—(P.A.) Brigadier G. B. Parkinson. Commander of the Southern Military District. will fly to Greymouth to-day to address territorial officers and inspect Army installations in Westland. Major I. S. Miller, chief inspecting ordnance officer at Army headquarters. Wellington, will arrive today to inspect Army magazines in*the Southern Military District. Detective-Sergeant Colin Urquhart, of Wellington, has taken up duty on the detective staff at the Christchurch Central Police Station. Mr C. M. Thompson, an accountant in the trustee department of the New Zealand Insurance Company, has been appointed secretary of the National Art Gallery, it was anounced yesterday by the Public Service Commission. Mr J. Meltzer, general secretary of the New Zealand Police Association, returned to Wellington by the steamer express last evening after a brief visit, to Christchurch, during which he had an informal talk with members of the association. Mr J. Wyn Irwin collapsed with a serious illness on Friday and was admitted to hospital. The Canterbury University College Council expressed sympathy and wishes for his rapid recovery at a meeting yesterday afternoon. Mr C. H. Perkins joined the Canterbury University College Council yesterday as a nominee of the GovernorGeneral succeeding Mr A. O. Wilkinson. He was appointed to the finance committee. Mr W. W. Jenson, a student of the Canterbury University College School of Engineering last year, has gained the highest aggregate marks in the British Empire in sections A and B of the examination for associate membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and has been awarded the institution’s Bayliss prize. The congratulations of the college have been expressed.