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Mr. P. Black, Palmerston North city curator, has been appointed a judge at the national flower show to be held at Oamaru next month. The Commonwealth Government has invited Sir Walter Citrine, the British Labour leader, now in Canada, to extend his tour to Australia.
The promotion of Colonel W. H. Cunningham, C.8.E., D. 8.0., V.D., to the rank of Brigadier commanding the Bth Infantry Brigade Group, Second N.Z.E.F., lias been gazetted. In civil life Brigadier Cunningham was a wellknown Wellington barrister and solicitor, and for four or five years prior to joining the Expeditionary Force he was Crown Prosecutor at Wellington. During the 1911-18 war he served in France, Celgiuin, Egypt, and Gallipoli. He commanded the 2nd Battalion of the Wellington Regiment from March, 1916, until the end of the war, with the exception of a period of three months when he was in charge of the Reserve* Battalion and Reserve Brigade at Sling Camp. He was mentioned four times in dispatches and gained the D. 8.0. and the Order of St. Stanislaus, third class, a Russian decoration.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 14, 17 January 1941, Page 6
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