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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 303, 19 September 1941, Page 6

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Vice-Regal.

Government House, Wellington, September 18.

Sir Joseph Ward aud Captain R. H. Bevan, R.N., have arrived at Government House.

Captain R. 11. Bevan, R.N., arrived at Wellington yesterday from Auckland.

Dr. James Lyon, practical examiner for the Trinity College of Music, London, is visiting Christchurch. Mr. T. B. Gillooly has been appointed a member of the board of examiners under the Mining Act, 1926, for two years from September 1. Flight Lieutenant F. W. Petrie has been promoted temporary squadron leader in tiie general duties branch in the R.N.Z.A.F.

Major R. B. Ashe, M.C., V.D., Chief Signals Officer, Army Headquarters, has been granted the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel. Mr. Justice Callan will leave Auckland on Monday for Wellington, where he will be engaged for three weeks on the work of the Aliens’ Tribunal.

Mr. J. Cummings, former superintendent of poliep in Auckland, arrived at Wellington yesterday to take up his new post at police headquarters. Squadron Leader G. Carter, R.N.Z. A.F., has been appointed munitions controller for the purpose of the Munitions Emergency Regulations, 1941.

Dr. U. M. Stevenson, Ph.D., F.R.G.S., who has been temporarily occupying the pulpit of the Cambridge Terrace Congregational Church, left Wellington for Auckland last evening.

Major S. M. Satterthwaite, Christchurch, .formerly commandant of the Military School of Instruction, Burnham, has been promoted to lieutenantcolonel (temporary) and appointed Assistant Adjutant-General on the headquarters staff, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Mr. Angus Meßean, son of the Rev. A. Mcßcan and Mrs. Meßean, Ashburton, has been appointed to a position In the British Legation in Berne. Mr. Meßean was formerly on the staff of the “New Zealand Herald,” Auckland, and for the last six years he has been in charge of the English section of the International College at St. Gait Swtoeitad-