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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1938, Page 6

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Dr. F. Cameron, Feilding, has joined the staff of the Sunnyside Mental Hospital. Mr D. Marshall, Government veterinarian, Hamilton, has been appointed district superintendent in Wellington. Mi’ Colin Parsonson, Masterton, left today to take up a position in Feilding. Mr Parsonson was well-known in sporting circles in the Wairarapa. Mr Ken Gillon, who has been in the employ of Messrs Thos Borthwick and Son (A’Sia) Ltd, Masterton, for the past ten years, has been appointed manager of the Hawke’s Bay Soap Company. Mr Gillon left for his new position today. The death occurred this morning of Ein James Gray, the eight-year-old son of Mr and Mrs E. R. Gray, of 12 King Edward Street, Lansdowne. The cause of death was pneumonia following on measles. The funeral will take place tomorrow, leaving the residence at 3 p.m. for the Masterton Cemetery. The possibility of his coming to. New Zealand in the not far distant future is mentioned by Lord Auckland in a letter just received by the Mayor of Auckland, Sir Ernest Davis. Early this year an invitation was sent to Lord Auckland to visit New Zealand, particularly at the time of the centennial celebrations in 1940, if that could be arranged, and he replied that he would certainly come at the first possible opportunity. After serving as commissioner of the borough of Thames for the past five years, Mr C. L. Grange began his new duties as secretary of the Auckland Hospital Board today. Regarded as an outstanding local body administrator, Mr Grange was town clerk in Whangarei and Invercargill before being appointed to the position of commissioner of Thames five years ago. In this post his work in charge of the borough s affairs has been regarded as conspicuously successful. The death occurred in Wellington on Tuesday of Mrs Mary. Stewart, one of the last survivors of passengers by the Philip Laing, which arrived at Port Chalmers on April 15, 1848. Mrs Stewart was in her ninety-second year, but, despite her age, she remained bright, active, and alert to the last. Until lecently she went out alone for a daily walk and only a few months ago was still able to move freely about the house. Hers was a life rich in memories of the time when 'conditions were very different from what they are now. The sole survivor of the Philip s passengers on that historic voyage of 1848 is now Mrs J. L. Souter, nee Maiion Duff, 96 Archer Street, Chatswood, Sydney.