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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27642, 26 April 1955, Page 12

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The Earl of Home, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, proposes after the House of Commons has risen in August to leave on an extended Commonwealth tour. He will first visit Australia and New Zealand, and he hopes to visit other Commonwealth countries on the return journey.— (P.A.)

r r - C ’ A * . Brew has been appointed Public Service Commissioner of Western Samoa. Mr Brew, who was a Government auditor in Samoa from 1946 to 1949, is the general treasurer of tne New Zealand Public Service Association and an audit inspector.— (P.A.). Mr S. F. Marshall, of Christchurch, will be one of the Returned Services’ Association representatives to attend the unveiling of the Cross of Sacrifice at Bourail, New Caledonia, on May 8. the delegation will leave from the Royal New Zealand Air Force station. Uha A ea ’ i n a Hastings transport aircraft on May 6, returning on May 10. Dr Peter Mali ng (Heaton street) will leave today by air for England, where he will do a three months’ refresher course at St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, He will return to Christchurch in August. ' Flying Officer T. E. Woodfield, of Christchurch, former R.N.Z.A.F. recruiting officer for the Southern Area nas teen transferred from the general < U <u S branch of the Regular Air Force to the Reserve of Air Force Officers lor a period of four years, according notice in the latest Gazette. Flying Officer Woodfield has been granted the temporary rank of flight lieutenant. Flight Lieutenant J. B. Brazier, of No. 3 (Canterbury) Squadron of the lerritonal Air Force. has been granted an extension of his present commission for one year, according to a notice published in the Gazette.

5* K. Regan has been appointed a traffic officer by the Christchurch City Council.