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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1938, Page 6

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Mr M. G. Catt, of Masterton, left today on a holiday visit to Australia. The Hon H. T. Armstrong. Minister of Labour, has returned to Wellington from Palmerston North. Mr J. R. Herd, Wellington, has been appointed Crown Law Officer in Samoa for a three-year term. Mr Roger Henry, of the Masterton Magistrate’s Court staff, has received notice of his transfer to Wellington. His place will be filled by Mr E. Corbishley. The Hon W. Downie Stewart, Dunedin, accompanied by his sister, Miss M. Downie Stewart, returned to Wellington by the Maunganui yesterday from Sydney after attending the British Commonwealth Relations Conference at Lapstone, in the Blue Mountains. Mr Downie Stewart, who has been away from New Zealand for six weeks, is to leave Wellington tonight on his return to Dunedin. Mr W. Anderson, of Palmerston North, celebrated his ninety-first birth-, day on Monday. Borne in Ross-shire, Scotland, Mr Anderson came to NewZealand in his twenties. After four years in Wellington he married there and went to Palmerston North a year later. He was employed by the late Mr T. T. Kerslake, a leading tailor, for some time before entering into business on his account. Later he carried on farming at Bunnythorpe before retiring.

A former supervisor of the pig industry for the Department of Agriculture, Mr Kirke Wood Gorringe, died recently at his home, Kelburn Parade, Wellington. Mr Gorringe was born in 1871 at Bexley, Kent, England. He came to New Zealand in 1891. For a number of years he was engaged in farming in Taranaki. Later he set up the first model pig farm at Te Rapa, Hamilton. In 1920 Mr Gorringe joined the Department of Agriculture as supervisor of the pig industry. He lectured throughout both the North and South Islands. Mr Gorringe was responsible for improving the standard of pigkeeping in the Dominion and played a large part in developing the export industry. He retired at the end of last year.

The death occurred at Napier during the weekend of Canon Eric Dudley Rice, aged 62. Born at Auckland in 1876, Canon Rice served his early days in the ministry at Ross, West Coast, and after being two years in England was chaplain to the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. After the war he was at Tauranga and later went to St Augustine’s, Napier, after which he received an appointment to Waipukurau. from which he retired last vear because of ill-health. Canon Rice was some years ago a prominent member of the Hawke's Bay Rugby Referees’ Association. Since his retirement he had lived at Napier. He is survived by a widow, one daughter, Miss Mary Rice, and a son, Mr Vincent Rice, who is at Canterbury College.