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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1939, Page 4

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Dr G. W. Harty. Mr T. G. Young and Mr H. S. Gilberd have been reappointed members of the Opticians’ Board. The Rt Hon Sir Michael Myers, Chief Justice, who will preside over sittings of the Supreme Court in Greymouth next week, will return to Wellington about March 6. Mr L. A. Curtis, Masterton manager for Messrs Morrison and Gilberd Ltd., returned this afternoon from Wellington, where he has been attending the annual conference of the Institute of Opticians of New Zealand. At the Institute’s golf tournament at the Hutt links on Wednesday, Mr Curtis was runner-up in the bogey competition for the Stoco Cup. The death has occurred of Mrsi James Buick, aged 96, at her home in Jackeytown Road, Tiakitahuna, Manawatu. She was the younger sister oi the late Mrs Ingle, Marton, who was said to be the first white , girl born in Petone. Mrs Buick was born in Waiwetu, Upper Hutt, on June 17, 1843. and so far as is known she was to the time of her death the oldest surviving white woman born in the Dominion. Mr John Reid, aged 58, of Dunedin, who died following a fall from a ladder at the Hillside Workshops, was born in Glasgow. He joined the 2nd Battalion Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders in 1898 and served at Aidershot, Gibraltar, Malta, Crete, Africa. India and during the Great War as one of the Old . Contemptibles. He was among the first of the British troops to go to France at the outbreak of the war. He was wounded after the retreat from Mons, taken prisoner in November, 1914, and spent the remainder of the war period in Germany. Mr Reid came to Dunedin in 1925.