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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1938, Page 4

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The Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, is visiting Wellington on business. Mr James Watson, of Masterton, Wairarapa Provincial Secretary of the Farmers’ Union, has returned from the Dominion Conference in Wellington. Lieutenant S. B. Wallace, 8.E., having returned to the Dominion after undergoing a course of instruction at the Military School of Science, Woolwich, has been appointed ordnance mechanical engineer at Trentham, states a Gazette notice. Lieutenant A. H. Andrews, 8.E., has been appointed assistant ordinance officer, Trentham. Superintendent S. Till, who for the past eight years has had charge of the Auckland police district, is to begin his retiring leave on August 14 after 40 years of service in the New Zealand Police Force. On November 14, he is to retire officially on superannuation. The bulk of Superintendent Till’s experience has been on the administrative side. Mr Frank Thomas, for 21 years organist and choirmaster at St Andrew’s Church, The Terrace, Wellington, and for 22 years conductor of the Wellington Savage Club's orchestra, is to leave on a visit to Adelaide by the Niagara on July 25. During Mi’ Thomas’s absence, Mr R. Henry will take his place at St Andrew’s, and Mr L. Logan, for 27 years leader of the Savage Club’s orchestra, will act as conductor of the orchestra.

Mr K. W. R. Glasgow, M.A., M.Sc., Dunedin, has been appointed headmaster of Scots College, Wellington. Mr Glasgow, who is to succeed Mr J. R. Sutcliffe, B.Sc., is 35 years of age, and is the son of the late Mr W. T. Glasgow, a former Comptroller of Customs. He is a married man and has two children. Beginning his education at the Terrace School, Wellington. Mr Glasgow returned to Dunedin with his family on the retirement of his father. There he attended the Kaikorai School and later the Otago Boys’ High School. He next entered the Otago University, where he took his M.Sc. in chemistry with first-class honours in research chemistry.