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SIR. HARRY BATTERBEE U.K. HIGH COMMISSIONER SIR P. DUFF~SUCCESSOR (P.A.) WELLINGTON. Jan. 5. Sir Patrick Duff has been selected to fill the post of High Commissioner in New Zealand for Ilis Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom in succession to Sir Harry Batterbce, whose extended term of office will expire this year. Sir Patrick Duff will take up his duties in the middle of the year. Sir (Charles) Patrick Duff, K.C.8.. K.C.V.0., C. 8., C.V.0., has been deputy High Commissioner in Canada since 1941. lie was born in 1889, and in 1929 married Miss Margaret Woodcock. After leaving college at Oxford
lie 'entered the Board of Trade by open competition in 1912. During the Great War of 1914-18 he was wounded and mentioned in dispatches twice. Later he was private secretary to the successive presidents of the Board of Trade from 1919 to 1923. He then became private secretary to Earl Baldwin and Mr. Ramsay Macdonald during their terms as Prime Minister of England. From 1933 to 1941 he was secretary of the Ministry of Works and Public Buildings. He enjoys as recreations tennis and golf.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21604, 5 January 1945, Page 2
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