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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1938, Page 4

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The Rt Hon J. G. Coates arrived at Wellington yesterday from the north. Messrs C. Jorgensen and S. Beale were visitors’ to Martinborough during the weekend. A British Official Wireless message states that the New Zealand High Commissioner, Mr W. J. Jordan, left London for Geneva last night. Bernard Sands, who has been staying with Mr M. Macrae, Donald Street,, during the school holidays, returned to Berhampore at the week-end. Mr F. W. Furby, chief postmaster at Christchurch, is retiring on superannuatibn. After service’for some time with the department, he acted as private secretary for many years for various Cabinet Ministers. He returned to the department as principal of the postal division. Subsequently he became chief postmaster at Palmerston North before being transferred to Christchurch. There was a large and representative attendance yesterday at the funeral of the late Mr Cecil Kebbell, a wellknown and highly respected resident of Alfredton. The service at St Aiden’s Church, Alfredton, was conducted by the Bishop of Wellington, the Rt Rev H. St Barbe Holland, assisted by the Rev L. Ives. The Bishop of .Wellington also officiated at the graveside at the Masterton Cemetery. Many beautiful wreaths were in evidence, including several from local bodies and societies with which the late Mr Kebbell was associated. The pall-bearers were Messrs W. Higginson, P. Brandon, I. Pearce, R. W. Kebbell, H. Edmonds and H. N. Kebbell. Mr W. C. Harley, S.M., who has been appointed Chief Judge for Western Samoa, left Wellington yesterday by the Government motor-ship Maui Pomare to take up his new position. He was accompanied by Mrs Harley. An appointment to this position was" made necessary by the need for relieving the present Chief Judge, Mr Morling, because of ill-health in his family. Before his appointment as a magistrate, Mr Harley was a barrister in Nelson, and played a prominent part in the public life of the city. He was a member of the Nelson City Council from 1921 to 1925, and at the time of his appointment was a member of the Nelson Harbour Board. To nave sailed in the Cutty Sark in one of her most famous “tea-races,” to have been a "blackbirder” in the South Seas, and to have known the notorious “Bully” Hayes, were among the experiences of Captain George Harvey, formerly of Whangaparaoa, whose death has occurred in Auckland at the age of 95, says a Press Association message from Auckland. Captain Harvey was one of the last of the old commanders who lived through the golden age of sail in the last century. He not only knew life at sea in all kinds of sailing craft, but also served in steam and navigated a little screw vessel of only 37 tons register from England to New Zealand more than half a century ago.