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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1938, Page 4

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Dr. Oswald J. Smith, Canada, who has been conducting evangelistic missions in several centres in the Dominion, -left Auckland by the Mariposa yesterday for Los Angeles. Mr Michael Gronkowski who resides with his daughter Mrs P. Price. Railway. Road, Masterton, celebrated, his 98th birthday on Saturday last. Mr Gronkowski enjoys splendid health. The Leader of the Opposition, the Hon. Adam Hamilton, left Wellington last evening by the steamer express for the south. He is going to his home in Invercargill, where he will spend the next week or so.

At a meeting of the Wellington District Children’s Health Camp Executive, Dr H. E. Gibbs was unanimously re-elected chairman for the ensuing year, the seventh year in succession that he has held this position. Miss F. M. Wainscott, who, for the past six years, has been employed on the staff of Messrs John Graham and Co Ltd., severed her connection with the firm on Saturday, prior to her marriage to Mr H. H. Mitchell. The firm presented Miss Wainscott with cutlery, and the staff with a tea set, all wishing her happiness. The death has occurred at a London hospital after a brief illness of Dr. Denis R. Balcombe Brown, only surviving son of the late Edward Balcombe Brown and Mrs E. M. Balcombe Brown (Wellington). Dr. Balcombe Brown was born at Wellington in 1908 and was educated at Christ’s College, after which he studied medicine at Oxford., where he took his B.A. He continued his studies at St. Thomas’s Hospital and graduated M. 8., 8.5., in 1934. He later obtained a veterinary scholarship under the Colonial Office at London completing his M.R.C.V.S. in 1936. He returned to New Zealand last year on a health recruiting trip, going back to England to take a special course in bacteriology, which he completed in August last. Dr. Balcombe Brown married Miss Eila Guy, formerly of Hamilton.