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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1938, Page 4

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Dr Gordon Cook, elder son of Dr and Mrs Cook, Masterton, who left for England last March, has been appointed lecturer in pathology at the Liverpool University, England. Mr H. M. Christie, M.P. for Waipawa, who has been attending the International Wool Conference in London, is a passenger by the Rangitane, due at Auckland on August 24. Mrs - Christie accompanies him. Sir Harry Luke, who has been appointed Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, in succession to Sir Arthur Richards, will be a passenger to Suva by the Niagara, when the liner leaves Vancouver on August 31. He will be officially received at Suva on September 16. The Auckland Presbytery last night elected the Rev R. Ferguson Fish as moderator in succession to the Rev R. N. Alley. Mr Fish will occupy the position for six months. Inducted to the charge of St James Church, Auckland, in 1934, Mr Fish was previously minister of the Caversham charge, Dunedin, and before that was at Waipukurau. Mr G. A. Maddison, Mayor of Hastings, will sail for Sydney by the Awatea from Wellington today. He will be away about three weeks or a month. At a meeting of the Hastings Borough Council last night the deputymayor, Cr. A. I. Rainbow, on behalf of councillors, wished Mr Maddison a pleasant holiday and hoped he would return in the best of health. The death occurred at the Masterton Hospital last night of Mr Percy Ellis Goodin, of Carterton, at the age of 43 years. The late Mr Goodin had been a patient in the hospital for about 18 months. He was born in Carterton and had spent a considerable part of his life in the Wairarapa. He is survived by a widow andfamily of ten children. The interment will take place at the Masterton Cemetery tomorrow, at 2 p.m. The death occurred suddenly at Lower Hutt on Saturday of Mr Herbert Edwin Mowbray, a member of a very old Wellington family. Mr Mowbray was born in Wellington in 1863, and was educated at Thorndon School, of which his father, Mr William Mowbray, was headmaster. After leaving school he was with Levin and Company for some years, and eventually took up farming at Hukanui, in the Forty Mile Bush. In 1897 he married Miss Rose White, of Porangahau, and about 20 years ago he retired, residing since then at Lower Hutt and Karori. Mr Mowbray was a well known member of the Thorndon Bowling Club. He was predeceased by his wife about a year ago, and is survived by his sister, Mrs H. H. Mirams.. The death occurred at the Auckland Hospital recently of Mr William Platt, a former resident of Masterton, at the age of 65 years. Mr Platt was a wellknown cricketer in his younger days, and was a member of the Carlton B f team which won the first senior championship inaugurated by the Wairarapa Thursday Cricket Association in 19034, other members of the team (which also won the senior championship in the following season, 1904-5) being the late Mr G. Welch, the late Mr F. P. Welch, the late Mr W. Kemble, the late Mr Harry Welch, the late Mr H. Green, Messrs F. Williams, Bert Welch, Kemble Welch, J. Waters, B. Iveson and W. Walker. The late Mr Platt, who leaves a widow, two sons and a daughter, was very popular among his friends, having a most genial disposition.