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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1938, Page 4

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Mr J. A. Lee, Parliamentary Undersecretary for Housing, left Wellington yesterday by air for Blenheim.Mr W. P. Aldridge, chief postmaster at Hamilton, will retire from the service this month. He will be replaced by Mr R. G. May, chief postmaster at New Plymouth. Mr Will Appleton, F.R.A.N.Z., Wellington, has been elected a Fellow of the London Association of Certified Accountants. He has also been appointed local representative of the association in the Dominion. The funeral of the late Mrs W. A. Adams which took place in Masterton yesterday was largely attended. Many beautiful wreaths were sent by sympathisers. The Rev J. M. Simpson conducted the service and the pallbearers were Mr Adams’s fellow workmen at the Waingawa Freezing Works. Two graduates of the Auckland University College, Messrs Darcy Walker and William Allan Pyatt, were selected by the professorial board as the Auckland nominees for the two Rhodes Scholarships to be awarded in New Zealand this year. Mr Walker, who will be 21 next month, is a son of Mrs H. B. Walker, Cheltenham. He was nominated last year and formerly lived in Palmerston North, Mr Pyatt, aged 21, is a son of Mr A. E. Pyatt, Devonport.