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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 111, 4 September 1942, Page 4

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Members of the Minesweepers’ Circle yesterday expressed sympathy with Mrs. Blane in the loss of her brother on active service with the Navy. Captain H. F. Dodson is the fifth parishioner to join the Church Army since the war began. We are confident that he will do good work and be a help to those to whom he ministers, states All Saints’ Parish Magazine. Sympathetic reference was made to the bereavement suffered by Mrs. Templeton, a former member now in Greymouth, In the loss of her husband, by members of the Palmerston North League of Mothers yesterday. Mrs. Mudgway, of Whangarei, who is staying with Mrs. Mudgway, Snr., Palmerston North, was welcomed as a visitor at the Palmerston North branch of the League of Mothers yesterday, and Mrs. Hart was welcomed back to membership. An interesting appointment In Washington has beeu gained by Dr. Felix M. Keesing, well-known Polynesian authority, formerly of Auckland. He has been called to Washington to take charge of research work on Pacific Islands in One of the special Government departments dealing with the war—the office of Strategic Services. Educated at the Auckland Grammar School and the Auckland University Dr. Keesing was later on the staff of the Auckland Voung Men’s Christian Association. He then became general secretary of the association at Palmerston North, before taking up his research work.