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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 290, 6 December 1929, Page 8

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VICEREGAL General Sir Alexander Ore Ruthven, Governor-General of South Australia, will arrive in Auckland from Sydney on Monday, December 16. The vistors will have use of the Vive-Regal car on the railways during a tour of the North Island. His Excellency and party will leave Auckland for Rotorua on Tuesday, December 17, and will remain in the thermal regions till .Friday, January 10, when they will leave Rotorua for Wellington. arriving there by the Limited express on Saturday morning January A Suva message states that Mr Henry Marks wits re-elected Mayor of Suva for the fifth term. Mr J. Markham, cf Wanganui, has been appointed to act as the New Plymouth Amateur Athletic Club’s delegate on the Wanganui-Taranaki Centre.

Major-General R. Young, General Officer Commanding the New Zealand military farces, will arrive in Wanganui on December 16 and will pfesent prizes at the Collegiate and St. George’s Schools.

Mr F. G Gibbs, who is shortly leaving for a trip to the United Kingdom, has been nominated by the Nelson Chamber of Commerce as a delegate to the congress of the Empire chambers of commerce to be held in London next May.

According to advice received from the Government by the Mayor (Mr W. J. Rogers) Viscount and Viscountess Craigavan, who are on a tour of the Dominion, will arrive in Wanganui on Sunday next, and will leave again on Monday. Viscount Craigavon is Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.

Mr J. A. Brailsford, of Hamilton, who has been appointed tutor-organiser for the Workers’ Educational Association for tho Victoria University College district, will be stationed either at Palmerston North or Wanganui. Mr Brailsford is at present on th> literary staff of the Waikato Times

Mr R. J. Sincock, who has had charge of the local branch of the New Zealand Tourist Department during the last five months, leaves Wanganui to-day for Dunedin on relief duty. Miss V. Ross, of Wellington arrived in Wanganui last evening in order t 0 relieve Mr Sincock, who will be returning early in January.

One of the Old Contomptiblcs, with 21 years of army service to his credit, died on Saturday at Gisborne in the person of Mr W. J. Sibley, bandmaster of the Gisborne City Band. He was a veteran of the Boer War, also of the Great War, having rejoined the colours with other reservists in August, 1914. He wore the Mons medal and held the rank of sergeant in the Engineers when he was discharged.

A Press Association message from Wellington last night announced the appointment of Mr Edward William Kane, clerk of the House of Representatives, to the position of Clerk of Parliament and Clerk of the Legislative Council, in succession to the late Mr A. F. Lowe. Borne in Wellington Mr Kane is a son of the late Mr Henry Russell Kane. He was educated in Wellington and after studying law for a while, joined the Parliamentary staff in 1886. He occupied various positions in the legislative department until his appointment as Clerk of' the House of Representatives in 1920, following the appointment of the late Mr as Clerk of Parliament.