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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1938, Page 6

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Mr H. Preston, sen., Pownall Street, has returned home from a holiday spent in Hawke’s Bay. Mr D. J. M. Douglas-Scott, a counsellor in the Foreign Office, has been appointed an assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, a British Official Wireless message states. Mr F. G. Robbie, formerly of Christchurch. who recently was appointed accountant in the Wellington branch of the Bank of New South Wales, has received notice of his transfer to Sydney. Mr John Ord Shearer, M.A. (N.Z.), lecturer in economics in the University of Western Australia, Perth, has been appointed lecturer in the department of economics at Victoria University College, Wellington, by the College Council. Mr Shearer is a New Zealander and a graduate of Auckland University College. There was a large attendance of district settlers and others at the funeral of the late Mrs Fred Moore, which took place at the Masterton Cemetery on Sunday. A service was conducted at St Matthew's Church by the vicar, the Rev E. J. Rich, and the Rev T. V. Pearson officiated at the graveside. The profusion of beautiful floral tributes testified to the respect and esteem in which the late Mrs Moore was held by a wide circle of friends, and the sympathy felt for her relatives in their bereavement. The pall-bearers were Messrs C. J. S. Harcourt, Eldin Moore, Raymond Smith, John Broad, James Broad and Don Baird.