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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1939, Page 4

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Mr Harley Donald, of Sydney, and formerly of Masterton, is on a visit to Masterton.

Mr J. S. Moir. Levin, has been appointed a coroner, according to a notice gazetted last night. The appointment of Mr Feng Wang as Acting-Consul-General of the Republic of China at Wellington has been recognised, according to a notice gazetted last night.

The Hon. R. Semple, Minister of Public Works and Transport, will leave Wellington tonight for Christchurch on departmental business. He will return toward the end of next week.

The Rev. C. Chant, who formerly was in business in Woodville as a draper for some years, has been appointed to the newly-formed Lyttelton Street Baptist Church in Christchurch as its first pastor.

Mr Denis V. Dowling, Dunedin, who is a student of singing and pianoforte at the Royal College of Music. London, has been awarded the Henry Blower prize for singers, and he has had his opera exhibition renewed for two terms to July, 1939. Lord Rothermere has made tentative arrangements to travel to New Zealand by the Dominion Monarch, which is to leave England on its maidenvoyage on February 17. Lord Rothermere, who it at present travelling on the Continent, will not return to London till early in February. The last few days have been sad ones for the Masterton Police Station. On Wednesday the late Constable R. Church was buried. Then yesterday morning’s cablegrams told of the death in the Victorian bush fires of James Kane, a nephew of Detective-Sergeant I W. Kane, while a message from ; Christchurch reported that Maurice j Robert Doggett, the 17-year-old | nephew of Senior-Sergeant G. A. Doggett. had been killed when he was run ; over by a motor lorry at Christchurch. , Deep sympathy will be extended to j this two officers in their bereavements. I