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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24951, 25 June 1942, Page 4

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Vice-Regal

The Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, yesterday received the Prime Minister, Mr P. Fraser, at Government House. His Excellency later received Dr Leslie Will, chairman of the Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Rei Cross Society.

Captain R. C. B. Greenslade left for the north last night. The Otago Hospital Board at its meeting last night reappointed Mr A. Steel as the board's representative on the Otago University Council. Mr J. W. Dove was, on the motion of Mr A. Steel, seconded by Mr R. Walls, reappointed chairman of the Otago Hospital Board at its meeting last night. There was no other nomination. The honorarium was fixed at £250 a year for the ensuing two years. At a' meeting of the congregation of the Lawrence-Beaumont Presbyterian Church, held last night, over which the interim moderator, the Rev. J. Russell Shaw, presided, it was unanimously decided to extend a call to the Rev. Charles A. Kennedy, of the Mataura Presbyterian • Church. The vacancv at Lawrence was caused by the calling of the Rev. F. W. Winton to St. Peter's Church, Woolston. Advice has been received in Dunedin that Major W. R. K. Morrison, who was formerly a member of the staff of Messrs Dalgety and Co's Dunedin office, has been appointed to the general operations branch of General Sir Claude Auchinleck's headquarters in the Middle East. Major Morrison, who is a son of Mr William Morrison, formerly manager of the Union Bank in Dunedin, is 27 years of age, and is a graduate of the Duntroon Military College, from which he passed out as a lieutenant in December, 1939. He was posted to the New Zealand Staff Corps, and subsequently left New Zealand with the second echelon. After serving in Libya. Greece, and Crete, he returned to Egypt with the rank of captain, and underwent a course of training that resulted in his being entrusted with a series of specialist jobs which necessitated his removal from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force establishment and involved visits to five different countries in Asia.