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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28434, 14 November 1957, Page 14

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Vice-Regal The Governor-General (Vis count Cobham) and Lady Cobham visited the Cashmere High School yesterday morning and later his Excellency officially opened the Canterbury Officers’ Club while Lady Cobham visited the Lady King Karitane Hospital. Guests of their Excellencies for lunch were the Mayor and Mayoress (Mr and Mrs R M Macfarlane), the Bishop of Christchurch (the Rt. Rev. A. K. Warren) and Mrs Warren, and Miss d.nl’d V iscoun * Cobham dined at the Christchurch Club last evening. This morning at 10 o’clock. Lady Cobham will make a brief visit a'u . new Wesley Hospital About noon their Excellences 1 Zh'n a r rlve at the metropolitan sho«.- have lunch, and receive an official welcome in the early Cohh n = 00n - ‘S which Viscount Cobham will respond. After lt eD tht nZ t, mOSt ot the aft ernoon at the show, their Excellencies.

will leave by the steamer-express for Wellington this evening. Sir James Fletcher, of Auckland, will visit Christchurch early next month and on December 5 will speak to a luncheon meeting of the Canterbury Manufacture)s' Association on an international industrial development conferlence he attended recently. Sir James Fletcher attended a conference in San Francisco sponsored by Time-Life International and the Stanford Research Institute. There were 500 delegates from more than 60 countries. Mr J. D. B. Daly was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court yesterday on the motion of Mr E. T. Lay burn, by Mr Justice Adams. Mr R. W. Cooper was presented with the 10 years’ service certificate of the Canterbury School Committees' Association last evening for his work on the Linj wood Avenue School Committee ;He is immediate past president lof the association.