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and the Hon. Amando Stowers, M.L.A., Western Samoa ; Sir Alexander (Mackenzie) Livingstone and Lady Livingstone; Sir Henry Tizard, K.C.8., A.F.C., F.R.S., F.R.Ae.S.., F.lnst.P., Chairman and Managing Director of British Overseas Airways Corporation-; Sir C. P. Ramaswami Aiyer, late Prime Minister of Travancore ; Sir Datar, Singh. - The following came to New Zealand after the E.C.A.F.E. Conference in Australia r Hon. Hamid Ul Haq Chaudri, Minister of Finance and Industries, Pakistan, and Mr. W. A. Kaudri, Deputy Secretary, Pakistan Government; Hon. Tuan Mahomed Eusoff, of Malaya ; Major-General Rana and Mr. T. Singh, of Nepal; Mr. B. R. Devarajan, Assistant Secretary, Minister of Commerce, Ceylon. Further guests were Mr. G. P. Pillai, Trade Commissioner for India in Australia,. Mrs. and Miss Pillai; Sir Gilbert Campion, G.C.8., former Clerk of the House of Commons,, Lady Campion, and party ; Mr. F. Rowe, Director-General, Social Services, Australia, Mrs. Rowe, and Mr. R. Fyfe, Assistant Director-General; Dr. H. C. Coombs, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia ; Major-General K. W. D. Strong, C.8., 0.8. E., and Lieutenant-Colonel H. R. Greenwood ; Major-General Wootton, Commanding General, Pacific Air Command, United States ; Mr. M. E. Denning, Foreign Office official ; Mr. J. C. O'Dwyer, British Consul, Honolulu ; Dr. E. Yrisakis, Consul-General for Greece in Australia, and Mrs. Yrisakis ; Miss Helen Keller, the famous blind and deaf lecturer and authoress, with her aide, Miss Polly Thomson ; Professor Spence, Professor of Paediatrics, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Mr. David Owen, United Nations Secretariat; Mr. Charles Wilmot, 0.8. E., representative of British Council in Australia ; Dr. J. B. Grant, International Health Division, Rockefeller Foundation ; Mr. Howard J. Critchfield, Visiting Lecturer, State University of Washington ; Mr. Duncan W. Moir, Otaki Shield Winner, 1948 ; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Norman, Montreal, Canada ; Mr. H. Rabling, Managing Director, Vacuum Oil Co., Australia, and Mrs. Rabling ; Mr. S. G. Marshall, Technical Representative, Short Bros, and Harland, Ltd., London ; Miss M. Murray, English and Scottish Trainer Girl Guides Association ; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Perkins,. Maadi, Egypt; Miss Joan Vickers, past member London County Council and British Government welfare worker. The leading newspaper men to visit New Zealand were Mr. F. Bartholomew, Pacific Vice-President, United Press of America, and Mrs. Bartholomew, and Mr. S. Murray,. Editor, British Insurance papers. Most notable photographers were Mr. Rupert Leach, Director of Photography, United States ; Mr. A. R. Saidman, of the Illustrated Magazine ; and Mr. and Mrs. Selwyn Kip Farrington, of the United States. This Department arranged accommodation and other facilities for certain Councils,. Commissions, and meetings of officials from other countries. Among these were the South Pacific Air Transport Council —two of the members of this Council were guests — Brigadier-General Sir Harold Hartley, K.C.V.0., C.8.E., F.R.S., M.C., M.A., and Lady Hartley, and the Hon. A. S. Drakeford, Minister of Civil Aviation, Commonwealth of Australia ; United Kingdom Civil Aviation Commission —Sir Frederick Tymms, K.C.1.E.,, M.C., F.R.Ae.S., Lady Tymms, Mr. K. T. Spencer, M.C., B.Sc., A.M.1.C.E., A.C.G.1., A.F.R.Ae.S., and Mr. G. J. Warcup ; South West Pacific Commission International Meteorological Organization (IMO) ; visit of Australian Police officials. Four members of the Seventh Pacific Science Congress received special facilities : Dr. B. Gutenberg, Director of the Seismological Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena ; Dr. C. Skottsberg, representative of the Swedish Academy of Science ; Dr. A. B. Walkom, Director of the Australia Museum, Sydney; and Mr. C. M. Yonge, Professor, Glasgow University. The stage brought to New Zealand Sir Laurence and Lady Olivier (Vivien Leigh) and Miss Cicely Courtneidge. Officers and ratings of the visiting French sloop, " Dumont d'Urville," were given the usual courtesies at Auckland.

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