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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1939, Page 6

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Mr H. Frost, Auckland, has been on a visit to his brother, Mr E. G. Frost, South Road.

Major J. H. Irving, E.D.. leaves today for a two weeks’ technical course at Trentham.

The Bishop of Wellington, the Rt Rev H. St Barbe Holland, acting on medical advice, leaves on May 19 for England to continue his present improvement in'health. Among ex-Wairarapa College pupils who had 8.A.. degrees conferred on them at the Victorio University College gathering last night were Edward Cromwell Coddington and Hazel Mary Pettit (senior scholar in Engtish).

The Rev. Fred. J. Parker returned to Masterton from Dunedin yesterday. Mr Parker has been away in the South as the special Diamond Jubilee preacher in connection with the celebrations of the Dundas St. Methodist Church in Dunedin.

Mr John Reuben Williamson died at his home, 310 Oriental Bay, Wellington, yesterday in his seventy-sixth year. The late Mr Williamson was born in Wallsend. New South Wales, and came to New Zealand as a young man. He was well known in business as a hotel proprietor in Greymouth, Brunner, Nelson, and Kaikoura. After leaving the South Island he was in Wairoa for 16 years, retiring from active business only three years ago. Since then he has been living in retirement in Oriental Bay. The death occurred in Wellington yesterday after a brief illness of Mr Neil McLean; aged 83. Mr McLean was born at Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, a son of Mr John McLean, who came to New Zealand in 1860 and commenced business as a contractor. He served his apprenticeship as a shipwright, and then joined his father and brother, the late Mr Murdoch McLean, in the contracting business under the name of John McLean and Sons. Mr Murdoch McLean managed the Auckland office and Mr Neil McLean the Wellington office. He was a prominent Auckland representative footballer fifty years ago.

The death occurred suddenly in Hastings, at the age of 65 years, of Mr David Balharry, for many years secretary of the Hawke's Bay provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union. Mr Balharry was the eldest son of the late Mr David Balharry, one time manager of the New Zealand Shipping Co. in Napier. Entering the secretarial profession, he began business with Mr W. Kinross White in Napier, and later joined the firm of Wenley anl Lanauze. On the amalgamation of this firm with the Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association Ltd., Mr Balharry assumed the managership of the insurance department. Resigning in 1914 he entered partnership with Mr J. A. Fraser, in Hastings, and set up business on his own account in Hastings in 1920, combining secretarial work with land and estate agency and insurance.