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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19904, 25 September 1926, Page 14

PERSONAL.

Viob-Regal. A Blenheim Press Association message states that on Thursday evening the Governor-General inspected B Company Cadets on parade, and attended a Masonic function. Her Excellency (Lady Alice Fergusson) was the guest of the executive of the Blanket Society and the Girl Guides at a musical evening and supper. Yesterday Sir Charles visited Marlborough College, and was afterwards taken for a run round the Awatere district. Ministerial. The Hon. G. J. Anderson (Minister of Labour, Mines, and Marine) left Dunedin by the early morning express for the north yesterday. Mr P. Levi vice-chairman, and Professor T. A. Hunter have been appointed by the Victoria University College Council as the council’s representatives on *e New Zealand Agricultural College Board. The Rev. Hector Maclean went to Christchurch yesterday to take part in ti e laying of the foundation stone of a now church in the charge of the Rov. A. U. Kilroy of Riccarton. He will return to Oamaru on Monday, where he will attend the Youth Workers’ Institute for three

days- . , , * Private advice announces that the successful candidates for the New Zealand Government’s cadetships at the Sandhurst Royal Military College in England were G. Wooller, of the Auckland Grammar School, and J. R. Pago of the Southland Boys’ High School. There was a big increase in the number of applicants this year, these being narrowed down to seven, who* were assembled in Wellington during the present week for the final selection. ■7. R. Pago is a son of Mr and Mrs J. Pago, formerly of Dunedin, and now of Invercargill. Ho is the head prefect at the Southland Boys’ High School, and matriculated two years ago. He has been a member of the school Rugby fifteen for five years, being captain for two, and of the first eleven at cricket for four years He was runner-up in the fives, lawn tennis, and athletic championships last year, when he won the medal for the best all-round sport in the school, the previous year winning the Doschler Cup for all proficiency in school and sport. He at one time attended the High Street School. Woollcr is also proficient on the sporting side, having been a member of the Auckland Grammar School first fifteen.