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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1938, Page 6

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The Hon H. T. Armstrong, Minister of. Labour, will leave Wellington for Auckland tomorrow.

Sir William Perry arrived at Wellington yesterday by the steamer express from the south. - Dr H. N. Parton has been appointed a member of the Professorial Board of Canterbury College as representative of the lecturing staff of the college. At .last night’s meeting of the Masterton Borough Council a motion of condolence was passed with the Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, in the loss of his sister, Miss Jordan, recently. Mr J. Caughley has been appointed travelling tutor for the Workers’ Educational Association in public works camps, according to a decision of the Canterbury University College Council.

Mr A. Longmore, Wellington, has been appointed a Grand Trustee of the Loyal Britannia Lodge of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows, New Zealand, in the place of the late Mr W. H. Madeley. The Mayor of Carterton, Mr D. L. Taverner, was appointed at last night’s meeting to represent the Council at a meeting of the Centennial Exhibition Committee, to be held in Wellington on June 17.

Mr Robert Telford, president of the Wellington Rotary Club, announced at yesterday’s luncheon of the club that he had learned that the health of Sir Charles Norwood had improved considerably during his visit to Australia. He was not yet quite his old self, but was steadily improving in health. Sir Charles would be back in Wellington before the end of July. The master of the first Roman Catholic school established in Blenheim in 1872. Mr Joseph Ward, died yesterday morning, aged 93. a Blenheim Press Association message states. Born in England, Mr Ward came to New Zealand 75 years ago on completing his secondary education, landing in Nelson and going immediately to Marlborough. He was believed to be the Dominion's oldest surviving member of the Hibernian Society. His widow, who is in her ninetieth year, was a niece of the late Archbishop Redwood. Mr William Campbell died recently at the residence of his daughter. Mrs L. Franklin. Ohindwai. His parents came to New Zealand in the ship Mariner. and he was born in Campbell Street. KaFori, Wellington. 87 years ago. As a young man he married and went to live in Palmerston North, where he was a brewer for some years. After farming at Woodville and later on the East Coast, Mr Campbell became al road and bridge inspector, and continued in that occupation for 30 years until his retirement. He is survived by two sons and two daughters and by- one brother.