INVESTITURE STOPPED
GOVERNOR-GENERAL ACTS AN INCIDENT IN VICTORIA MELBOURNE, May 22. An investiture which was to have been held was stopped on the order of the Governor-General. The Victorian Consul for Czecho-Slovakia (Mr E. R. Peacock) who was to have been invested with the Czccho-Slovakian Republic Order of the White Lion, which is bestowed on distinguished citizen of foreign countries, but before the ceremony Was held a telegram was received from the military secretary to the Governor-General stating that it was not possible for Mr Peacock to accept the insignia until he had permission to do so from the King. The investiture was then postponed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 120, 23 May 1931, Page 7
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