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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1938, Page 4

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The death occurred at Pahiatua yesterday of Mr Walter George Taylor, at the age of 69 years. Mr R. Bindley, Advertising Manager for the Ford Motor Company, Wellington, is on a business visit to Masterton today. The Rt Rev H. St Barbe Holland, Bishop of Wellington, conducted services at St George’s Church, Frankton, yesterday. The Very Rev Dr Dugald Macfarlane, recently Moderator of the Church of Scotland, was admitted to St George’s Hospital, Christchurch, on Saturday, suffering from an infection of the throat. Mr Macfarlane is reported to be making as good progress as can be expected in the circumstances, and it is expected that he will be ready for duty at the end of the week. Mr J. D. Wilson,.who has been coroner in the Pahiatua district for the past 20 years, has received a communication from the Department of Justice notifying him that owing to his having reached the retiring age, he has been retired from the position. The letter conveys the Department’s appreciation of his services as Coroner and of the manner in which he has performed the duties of that office. It has been arranged that Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., will in future undertake any inquests held in the Pahiatua district.

The M.P. for Wellington Suburbs. Mr H. E. Combs'and Mrs Combs were given a complimentary social in the Day’s Bay pavilion on Saturday night by the Eastbourne branch of the New Zealand Labour Party in honour of Mr Combs’s election success. The Minister of Railways, Mr Sullivan, the Minister of Internal Affairs. Mr Parry, the president of the Wellington Suburbs Labour Representation Committee, Mr F. Molesworth, and the president of the Eastbourne branch, Mr T. H. Langford, attended. There were 300 present.

Mr Harry Edgar Nicholls, formerly secretary of the Wellington Harbour Board, died at his residence, Khandallah, on Saturday afternoon. Mr Nicholls, who was 81 years of age, was born in Wiltshire, England. He was educated in England and Adelaide, South Australia, and arrived at Wellington in the year 1873. For a year he was in the employ of the late Mr Denton, engineer and locksmith, Willis street, after which he worked as a junior clerk with Messrs Jackson and Palmer. He proved so apt in- his new employ that by 1876 he was assistant accountant, and 1881 saw him promoted to be wharf accountant under’ the same firm. On the creation of the Wellington Harbour Board in 1882, Mr Nicholls was appointed accountant and cashier, and he retained that position till 1908, when he succeeded the late Mr William Ferguson as secretary to the board. Mr Nicholls retained the secretaryship until March, 1924, when he retired.