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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 January 1939, Page 4

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The Very Rev Dr Dugald Macfarlane, a former moderator of the Church of Scotland, who has been visiting New Zealand for some months, left Wellington yesterday by the Rangitane on his return to Scotland. Mr H. P. Mourant. Wellington, will retire at. the end of March from the position of secretary of the New Zealand Bank Officers' Guild, which he has held since the inception of the guild nearly 20 years ago. Lieutenant E. A. Nicholson arrived at Auckland from Sydney by the Awatea on Monday to take over the duties of squadron signals officer with the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy. He will be stationed in H.M.S. Leander and will succeed LieutenantCommander P. Dawnay, whose term of service on the New Zealand Station has expired. Lieutenant Nicholson was recently attached to the destroyer Kempenfelt with the Home Fleet.

The death occurred on Sunday night of Mr Thomas Warnock at his home in Gonville. He was in his eightyeighth year. Mr Warnock went to Wanganui from Wellington about 30 years ago and set up business as a draner. As the town s population grew, Mr Warnock's business extended, and today it is one of the leading drapery establishment in Wanganui. Mr Warnock took an active part in the business till about two years ago. One of his recent gifts to the city was the clock outside his premises in Victoria Avenue, which v/as erected when the post office tower was demolished following a serious earthquake in 1931. He was a member of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church. Mi' Warnock leaves a wife and a grown-up family.