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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1938, Page 4

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Mr A. W. Scott, of the Lands Department, who has been visiting Masterton on business, returns to Hamilton at the week-end.

Mr C. J. Wilson was elected president of the New Zealand Woolbrokers’ Association at a recent meeting in Christchurch. He will hold office for the next 12 months. Mr H. S. Lawrence was elected vice-president. The newly-appointed postmaster at Masterton, Mr M. M. Simpson, of Gore, commenced his duties today. Mr D. McFarlane, who had been acting postmaster since Mr O’Connor’s retirement on superannuation, has returned to Lower Hutt.

Archbishop O’Shea, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Wellington and Metropolitan of New Zealand, is at present in Rome. A few weeks ago he visited the Glasgow Exhibition. After his visit to Rome he will go back to England and then return to New Zealand via the United States of America. His Grace is expected to arrive back at Wellington about the end of January. The Rev Father B. F. Blake, S.M., Christchurch, who left in 1936 under the scheme instituted by the Society of Mary for training secondary school teachers in European universities, will return to New Zealand early next year. Father Blake, who graduated M.A. with honours in New Zealand, early this year completed B.A. (Oxon.) with honours in French. Since then he has been at the University of Grenoble, and advice was received in Christchurch recently that he has completed the Diploma des Etudes Francaise. Father Blake will next visit Rome and will leave in December for New Zealand. He will resume his position on the teaching staff of St Bede’s College when the college reopens for the first term of 1939. The death occurred yesterday of Mrs Robert Riley, second wife of Mr R. Riley, of the Prime Minister’s Department, after a short and severe illness, following a long spell of indifferent health. Mrs Riley was widely known as Winifred Tennant, the authoress and poet. She was 47 years of age, and over a long period had been a contributor to well-known periodicals published in Australia and New Zealand. She won several, short story competitions, and her work is included in the anthologies of the best stories by New Zealand writers. Quite recently she had a short story published in the “Manchester Guardian.” For three years she was editress of the children’s page of the “Auckland Sun,” writing under the name of ‘‘Dawn Lady. Just before het serious illness she had almost completed a novel, only having four chapters to write.

The death occurred in Wellington of Mr F. A. L. Kuskop, an' exceedingly gifted composer of chess problems. Mr Kuskop, who was aged 94, was born at Wismar, North Germany, and arrived in New Zealand. In 1893 Nir Kuskop had to give up work because of serious eye trouble which resisted all curative treatment. He had thus been blind for the past 45 years. In these years of affliction he derived much pleasure from the solving and composing of chess problems. Mr Kuskop, who had a long and brilliant list of tourney honours to his credit, contributed problems to numerous papers. Some of his many prizes or awards of honorable mention were gained in international competitions, in which several of the leading problemists of Europe and America were unplaced. For some years he dedicated problems to the competitors at the annual New Zealand Championship Congress.