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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19278, 16 September 1924, Page 7

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VICK-REGAL. In connection with the Vice-regal party** visit yesterday morning (reports a Wanganui Press Association message), Mr W. JR. Tuok handed over the deeds of the Elunket Society’s rqoms purchased by- him And given to the society as a gift from him to . Viscountess Jelli'coe, who in turn presented them to the society. She also unveiled » brass tablet, and presented a number of St. John Ambulance certificates. Viscount Jellicoe was entertained at a Rotary Club) . lunch. Yesterday afternoon their Excellencies were tendered an official farewell,/the , guard of honour being furnished by focal companies of the First Battalion, Wellington and West Coast Regiment. Afterwards Lord and Lady Jellicoe left for New Plymouth. . . i Sir William Sim will leave on ‘Mtonday next for Wellington to attend a sitting of the Court of Appeal. An Auckland Press Association message reports that Captain T. Mav/son, formerly of the Tofua, lias'’ been appointed to command the Makura,, relieving the present lr commander, Captain A. 0. Showman, at Sydney, where the latter will come ashoio for orders. / ■ * Mr C. J. Johnson, manager of the Wanganui branch of the Australian Mutual . Provident Society, has been transferred to Dunedin, on promotion to the position of ; manager of the branch in this city in sue- - cession to Mr ,B. R. Stock, who is about to retire from the service of the society. ; Mr John Angus Dunning, B.Sc., has been • selected by the Professorial Board of tba , Auckland University College , as the Auckland nomine© for the Rhodes Scholarship for this year (reports a Press Association _He was nominated last year. Mr Angusia as present on the staff of the John MTdashaa College (Dunedin), and has played fdf Carisbrook, Cricket ’Club. He js also an, Of ago representative hotkey player, his ckiiK being the Otago University. The Hon. G. M. Thomson, wno represented New Zealand at the Pan-Pacifioi Conference at Honolulu, returned to., the dominion by the Makura yesterday morning. He intends to 1 visit Wanganui, and will then e6me on to Dunedin, arriving faerei some time next week. At a meeting of the executive of the ' Otago Rugby Union held last night it was decided to send a letter of sympathy to the relatives of the late Mr W. S. R. - Heaalewood. who died on Sunday from pneumonia. The deceased played with the Al- ■ hambra senior team for a number of years., ,