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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 157, 4 June 1929, Page 7

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Tho Governor-General and Lady /lice Fergusson. will leave Auckland this evening for Wellington, and will go into residence, at Government House, Wellington, for the duration of the session.

Mr J. A. Lissington, health inspector for the Borough Council, is spending a fortnight’s holiday in Auckland.

A cable message reports that the death has occurred in London of Sir Colville Barclay, British Ambassador at Lisbon.

Mr J. Binsted has been appointed railway locomotive engineer for the South Island. He was formerly assistant locomotive engineer at Auckland.

Sir Samuel and Lady Hordern and Miss A. Hordern, of Sydney, are through passengers on the Niagara, which arrived at Auckland from Sydney yesterday. The Leader of the Opposition (Rt. Hon J. G. Coates), accompanied by Mrs Coates, is expected to arrive in Dunedin on June 9 and will remain there for several days.

Rev. J. Boothroyd, who has just completed ten years’ service in the Methodist Home Mission Department, has retired from the work. He is now in Christchurch, where he will make his home. The Prime Minister on arrival at Auckland by the express yesterday morning had an enthusiastic welcome from United Party representatives and the public (states a Press Association telegram). Mr I£. Reid, of Masterton, who has been selected as one of the All Blacks to visit Australia, is not unknown locally, he having been resident in Palmerston North in 1927. In that season Mr Reid played with the Old Boys Club.

Rev. Hector N. McLean has been appointed lecturer, preacher and organiser of the New Zealand Bible League. Dr. McLean is a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Nfew Zealand, and held an appointment at New Brighton. Sir Joseph Carruthers, a former Premier of New South Wales, is travelling to Honolulu by the Niagara which arrived from Sydney at Auckland yesterday. On his return journey he will visit various islands of the Pacific, which will probably include Samoa. Mr John Alexander Lonnie, who died at Miramar, "Wellington, on Sunday at the age of 83 years, was born at Lauder Barnes, in Scotland. He arrived in Wellington in 1872 after a voyage of 120 days in the Queen Bee. After farming in Hawke’s Bay, the late Mr Lennie entered tho grocery business from which he retired only eight years ago. Mr A. M. Ferguson, Consul for Belgium and Deputy Dean of the Auckland Consular Corps, has been awarded, by King Albert of Belgium, the Order of Leopold for his long and faithful services to that country. Mr Ferguson has already been the recipient of a Belgian decoration, Chevalier de la Couronne de Belgique. Two Orders of Leopold exist • in Belgium; one, created by Leopold the First, of five classes, with purple red ribbon; the other, created by Leopold the Second, with blue ribbon and black stripe in the centre. Mr Ferguson was previously awarded the French Gratitude Medal (Reconnaissance Francaise.)