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At the annual meeting of the Wairarapa Electric Power Board yesterday, Mr A, C. Pearce was re-elected chairman for the ensuing year. Mr H. M. Christie, M.P. for Waipawa, and Mr J. S. Jessep, have been appointed members of the Board of Native Affairs. The Hon Mr Justice Ostler, who is on sick leave, and Mrs Ostler, will leave by the Awatea today for Sydney. From Sydney they will travel by steamer to Queensland, where they intend to spend a few months. Dr F. J. Turner, lecturer in geology at Otago University, and Mr W. Donovan, Dominion analyst, were at the annual meeting of the Royal Society of New Zealand at Victoria University College yesterday, elected fellows of the society.
Dr G. H. Maaka has resigned the position of assistant medical superintendent of the Napier Hospital, after five and a half years’ service on the resident medical staff. Dr D. A. Ballantine, a member of the staff, has been appointed to succeed him.
A British Official Wireless message reports the death of the Bishop of Wakefield, the Rt Rev James Buchanan Seaton, D.D., M.A. He was born in 1868 and was Archdeacon of Johannesburg and Rector of St Mary’s, Johannesburg, from 1909 to 1914.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 May 1938, Page 6
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