Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog of Palestine, stopping off here en route to Jerusalem from the U.S., was received by Prime Minister Jan Smits, Finance Minister J. H. Hofmeyr and British High Commissioner Lord Harlech.
Meanwhile, Gen. Smuts opened a new engineering block at Witwatersrand University, financed by an endowment of L55,000 from Wolf and Hirsch Hillman.
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