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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1938, Page 6

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The Hon W. Nash, Minister of Finance, returned to Wellington today from his election tour in the north. Mr C. R. Wylie, formerly of Masterton, a member of the Wellington Squadron Territorial Air Force, has been selected for a short service commission in the R.A.F., England. The Hon H. T. Armstrong, Minister of Labour, who addressed a meeting at Eketahuna last night, returned to Wellington today. He will visit the Palmerston North and Hawke’s Bay districts next week. The death occurred suddenly yesterday morning of Mr Carl Petersen Lindegreen, a well-known figure in the lobbies at Parliament, and organiser of the Palmerston North electorate for the Labour Party. He was 66 years of age. A Press message from Wellington states that a cable received in Wellington from London advises the death, on September 29, of Mr James Allan Strang, a former pastoralist of the Manawatu district and a quondam polo player. After attending the first international conference on correspondence education held in Victoria. British Columbia, the New Zealand representative at the gathering, Dr A. G. Butchers, headmaster of the Education Department’s correspondence school in Wellington, returned to New Zealand by the Mariposa yesterday. A report of the proceedings at the conference and a description of his subsequent investigations wil be embodied in a report Dr Butchers is preparing for the Government.