Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Thursday 31 July 1941, page 2


PERSONAL

VICE-REGAL.

His Excellency the Governor-Gene-ral (Lord Gowrie) received at Govern-ment House, Melbourne, yesterday, the Right Honourable K. G. Menzies Prime Minister) and Vice-Admiral Sir Guy Royle, the latter on assump- tion of appointment as First Naval Member and Chief of the Naval Staff. In the evening His Excellency, at-

tended by Brigadier-General A. T And-erson, left Melbourne by train for

Canberra.

His Excellency the Governor of

New South Wales and Lady Wake-

hurst, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel R. O. Wynne and Miss J. Holman, ar-rived at Government House, Canberra,

yesterday morning from Melbourne. In the evening His Excellency Lord Wakehurst left by train for Sydney.

Mr. W. Deuchar Gordon, of "Manar," has accepted the seat on

the Board of Perpetual Trustee Com-pany (Limited) rendered vacant by the recent resignation of the Hon. J.

P. Abbott, M.H.R., following the ap-

pointment of the latter to the Fede- ral Cabinets.