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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 October 1938, Page 4

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Messrs J. Georgetti and J. S. Lacy have been reappointed members of the Wellington Land Board. Captain L. W. Andrew, V.C., New Zealand Staff Corps, has relinquished the appointment of adjutant, Second Field Ambulance, and Adjutant, First Battalion,- the Wellington Regiment (City of Wellington’s Own), and has been appointed assistant adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Central Military District. Dr A. McClintock, a graduate of Otago University, who has been in England for the past three years, returned by the Rangitiki, which reached Auckland on Wednesday night. Dr McClintock gained his doctorate of philosophy at London University for a thesis on the history of Newfoundland. He also gained distinction in the field of art, having two etchings hung in the Royal Academy. Mr C. D. Bannister is leaving Masterton early next week', to take up his residence at Waitara. Mr Bannister has been scoutmaster of the Mo-katoa Troop since its inception about two years ago and Mrs Bannister has been cubmaster of the troop's Cub pack. Both Mr and Mrs Bannister have given excellent service to the Scout and Cub movement in Masterton and their departure will be grdatiy regretted by those associated with the troop. Mrs Bannister will leave Masterton in a week or two. The death has occurred of Mr Phil Pike, of Hamilton, at the age of 74 years. He was formerly a prominent I public man . in the Wairarapa, states a Press Association telegram from Hamilton. The late Mr Pike was a member of a well-known Marlborough pioneer family which arrived at Blenheim in 1864 on the ship Cassapore, the voyage occupying sixteen weeks. He was in business in Eketahuna for twenty years, and while in the Wairarapa he took a keen interest in public affairs, being Mayor of Eketahuna for a number of years and a member of the Tararua Electric Power Board and of the Masterton Hospital Board. He is survived by his widow, four sons, and two daughters. The resident inspector for New Zealand of the Bank of New South Wales, Mr R. C. Addison, has received advice of the appointment of the Hon Sir Frederick Tout, M.L.C., as a director of the. bank, replacing Mr E. T. Thring, F.R.C.S., who has resigned. A wellknown personality in Australia, Sir Frederick has visited New Zealand several times. He is Commonwealth representative on the Australian Wool Board, and a past president of the Graziers’ Association of New South Wales. Sir Frederick has been a member of the principal Board of Directors of the Australian Mutual Provident Society for a number of years, and will arrive in Auckland today upon a visit to the Dominion in that connection.