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PERSONAL

Mr J. S. Barton, C.M.G., of Wellington, will arrive in Invercargill at the end of this week to hear appeals against valuations of impressed motor-vehicles.

Mr W. B. Harris, supervisor of teaching aids in the Department of Education, visited Gore last night and addressed district teachers.

Messrs J. Ritchie, D. F. Tait and N. M. Sandes, of Gore, are visiting Timaru, where they are representing the Gore Rotary Club at the South Island Rotary assembly. Among the recent graduates from the Officers’ Cadet Training Unit was 2nd Lieutenant R. A. P. Cox, of Dunedin, who was formerly in the service of the Southland Education Board. 2nd Lieutenant Cox is now with a northern antiaircraft unit.

Mr T. McChesney, town clerk’s assistant at the Invercargill Town Hall, has been transferred to full-time employment on patriotic work for the Southland Provincial Patriotic Council under the supervision of the honorary secretary (Mr W. F. Sturman). Colonel D. T. Maxwell, who went overseas with the Ist Echelon and has recently returned to New Zealand on military duties, is at present visiting Invercargill and is staying with his mother-in-law, Mrs John McQueen, Dalrymple street. Colonel Maxwell was formerly on the staff of the Defence Office in Invercargill for several years and was well known in Southland sporting circles. Captain R. A. Wilson, M.C., who was one of several New Zealanders mentioned in Hie Southland Times yesterday as having received decorations for conspicuous gallantry, is a brother of Mr T. Wray Wilson, of Invercargill, being the youngest of the five sons of the late Mr and Mrs Isaac Wilson, of Sumner. He was bom in Sumner and educated at the Sumner School and the Waitaki Boys’ High School. He studied medicine at Otago University and obtained his medical degrees before going to England to take a post-graduate course. He was in England when war broke out and joined up there with the 2nd Echelon. Captain Wilson served through the Greek, Crete and Libyan campaigns and in the present series of battles in Egypt. While in Crete he and a brother, Lieutenant I. J. Wilson, of Christchurch, were taken prisoner by the Germans, but were released by British forces after only a day. Mr and Mrs G. A. Soper, Willowbank, Athol, have received word that their son, Cyril Soper, is safe and well.

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Southland Times, Issue 24827, 20 August 1942, Page 4

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PERSONAL Southland Times, Issue 24827, 20 August 1942, Page 4

PERSONAL Southland Times, Issue 24827, 20 August 1942, Page 4

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