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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 244, 16 October 1942, Page 2

Under the will of Mary Rothney Orr, Christchurch, widow of Alexander Orr, of Methven, farmer, the following bequests are made: Dr Barnardo's Homes- £2000, Cholmondeley Memcrial Children 's Ho-me Incorporated, Governor's Ba-y, £2000, Christchurch Domains Boiard £1000. The county engineer, Mr B. Hundleby, told to-day's meeting of the Marlborough County Council that authority had now been received for tar-sealing the road from the borough boundary to the approaches of the Taylor bridge at Burleigh, and the coimcil decided to proceed with the work. The- dead body of a United Nations soldier was fo-und earlv yesterday morning by a shunter in the Auckland railway goods yard on top of a freezing van at-tached to a train which arrived from Frankton the previo-us night. The body was identified as that of Private Grady Emmett Bush. Death was due- to head injuries. An inquest will be

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At a meeting of the: Marlborough Stock and Station Agents' Association held to-day, the chairman (Mr J. McWhinney) referred in feeling terms to the death, yesterday of Mr H. J, Gluyas, of Grassmere. Mr McWhinney said that the late Mr Gluyas was a representa-tive of the old s-chool of st-urdy pioneers who had done so much for the development of the Dominion, and was a man whose services the community could ill-afford to lose. A motion of regret and symp-athy with his family was p-assed by members in silence. The Counties' Association, in a 1-et-ter read at to-day's meeting of the Marlborough County Council, asked for an expression of opinion on the question of having county works declared essential. They were necessary works, said the chairman, Cr. J. Kennington, but there were disadvantages as well as advantages in having them declared essential. The engineer, Mr B. Hundleby, said that while he could do with more surface - men, they were managing pretty well as it was, and he did not recommend that their works be declared essential undertakings at present. The council decided to recommend that no action be taken meantime.