NEWS IN BRIEF
BY-ELECTION AVOIDED « [PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, October 27. Commander King-Hall, Labour candidate, has been returned unopposed for the Ormskirk division of Lancashire, as the result of Sir J. Rosbotham’s retirement from Parliament. 8.8. C. APPOINTMENT LONDON, October 27. Mr. Ormond Wilson, of New Zealand. is not joining the Now Zealand unit, lie has been appointed to the 8.8. C. as assistant-director of Empire talks, and is beginning on Monday. NEW GOVERNOR OF KENYA RUGBY, October 27. Sir Henry Moore has been appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Kenya Colony, in succession to AirMarshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, who recently relinquished the Governorship in order to take up duty with the Royal Air Force, Sir Alan Burns, Governor of British Honduras, succeeds Sir Henry Moore as Assistant Under-Secretary of the Colonial Office. POLAR TRIP ABANDONED. MINNEAPO! IS, October 27. Sir Hubert Wilkins has announced that, due to the w r, he has abandoned his Polar submarine venture.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 1939, Page 6
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