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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1939, Page 6

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The Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Ltd., has received cabled advice from its London office of the death last week of Captain Andrew Anderson, formerly the company’s local marine superintendent in Sydney. Secretary of the Auckland Rugby Union and well-known accountant, Mr Thomas William Maben, aged 53, died this week in a private hospital after a sudden heart seizure while driving home by motor-car. Mr Maben suffered a severe illness two years ago. Messrs J. Townsend, D. L. Green, F. A. Wilson, J. G. Kean, J. Miller, (Wellington), B. A. Sanders, A. Howard (Hastings), R. N. Knuckey (Waitara), S. Birbirch (New Plymouth) and R. Blinkhorne (Palmerston North) are guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel. Dr G. F. V. Anson was last night re-elected chairman of the council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. Mr D. ‘J. Gibbs was re-elected chairman of the finance committee, Mr A. J. Seed, chairman of the fish committee, and Mr W. A. R. Jones, chairman of the game committee. The death occurred recently of Mr William Henry Catley, an old resident of Te Horo. The late lyir Catley, who was in his seventy-third year, was the son of the late Mr and Mrs John Catley, and was born at Makara, Wellington. He left Makara 31 years ago to take up farming at Te Horo. For eight years he was chairman of the Te Horo School Committee. The Dominion R.S.A. conference in Wellington resolved to send a telegram to General Sir Andrew Russell, past president of the association, conveying to him the unanimous greetings of the delegates and their sincere appreciation of his continued outstanding services to his country in the campaign he has been conducting throughout the Dominion to stimulate interest in recruiting and national defence. Mr J. R. Lloyd Hammond, who has retired from tne office of president of the Wellington central provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union, was presented with a silver teapot to mark his services to the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. The presentation was made at a meeting of the executive at Marton, by the new president, Mr D. G. Gordon. Mr Hammond had been president for six years, and before his appointment to that office had been an energetic member of the executive for a number of years. He is also group president, representing the Wellington Central. Manawatu, Wanganui, and Southern Hawke’s Bay executives on the Dominion executive of the union.

The death of Lord Inchcape is reported in a cablegram from London. He collapsed and died while dressing for dinner. Heir to the first Earl of Inchcape, who died in 1929, and who was the famous chairman of directors of the P. and O. shipping line. Lord Inchcape was born in 1887. He served in the Great War from 1914 to the Armistice with the 12th Lancers. He was a director of the P. and O. Company and other companies. Lord Inchcape's first wife was a daughter of the late Lord Justice Moriarty. He obtained a decree of divorce in 1931. and in 1933. married Leonora Margaret Brooke, daughter of the Rajab, of Sarawak. lie is survived by the widow, one son and one daughter.