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Evening Star, Issue 20613, 13 October 1930, Page 9

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Lord Stonehaven, the late Governor* ' General of Australia, was to arrive in Dunedin by the 5.5 p.m. train from the north to-day, and be officially welcomed at the station by the civic authorities. ' Lord Stonehaven, who is accompanied by Captain Houston, wilL. spend to-morrow in Dunedin, and will'l leave for the north by the 8.40 ex- i press on Wednesday morning. As it ! is understood that the visitor is inter-' ested in educational matters, it is pro-! posed that a visit to Otago University ] and the 'Boys’ High School be made; to-morrow morning, with a drive around the city in the afternoon. The visit is purely a private one, and the; above arrangements will have to bo submitted to Lord Stonehaven for approval. Dr lan C. Fraser, late of Dunedin and Tirngru Hospitals, has been! awarded his F.R.C.S. degree at Edin-i burgh. ' An Association message from Hast- , ings announces the death of Alfred; Amory George, journalist and printer,' 1 aged seventy-six. Born at Thawes Inn,. Holborn Hill, London, he arrived in New Zealand with his parents in 1864, landing at Dunedin, where he studied at the'school conducted by the late Sir Robert Stout. He was one of the first Mounted Volunteers to enlist for service at the time of the Parihaka affair.: He visited _ the Dunstan and Gabriel; Gully diggings in 1876, and conveyed l ! in a dray the printing plant for the j establishment of the ‘ Courier ’ at Tapa-1 nui, Otago. He went to Hastings in j 1865 as a printer, and issued the first 1 daily newspaper in 1887. He took a I keen interest in local body affairs, j being at one time a borough councillor | and deputy-mayor, founder of the 1 Hastings Fife Board, secretary of the T Heretaunga Squadron of Frontiersmen,; hon. secretary and trumpeter of the! Hawke’s Bay branch of the Maori War.j veterans, a life member of the Auck> \ land Garrison Band, a foundation life j member of the Dunedin Garrison j Band. He was keenly interested in] sport, and was an officer of several local j associations. Ho was also a J.P. i

The latest registrations at the Grand Hotel include Mr L. Vincent (Sydney),; Mr E. W- Sharp (Auckland), Mr and: Mrs J. D. Mitchell, Mr and Mrs M. Clarry, Messrs K. Mitchell, N. C.; Armitage, and E. Daniel (Wellington), and Mr T. W. Bauchop (Tokanui). .Among those staying at the Excelsior Hotel are Mr R. W. Parsons (Auckland), Messrs A. C. Richardson and J. Blankhurst 'Wellington), and Messrs C. M, Manhire, H. Frohlick. and A. C. Wells (Christchurch),