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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1939, Page 4

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Mr H. P. West has resigned from the position of secretary of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce, which he has held for nearly 12 years. Mi’ H. J. Brass, district manager of the A.M.P. Society, has left for Invercargill on his annual leave. Mr J. Weir, of Wellington, is acting district manager during Mr Brass’s absence. Mr C. H. Doughty, who has been branch manager in Masterton for the Dominion Life Insurance Company, has received notice of his transfer to New Plymouth, and will leave for his new sphere at the end of the month.

Mr W. H. Cocker, son of Mrs J. Cocker of Masterton, has been reelected president of Auckland University College at a meeting of the college council. Mr A. H. Johnstone, K.C., has been re-elected vice-presi-dent.

The death has occurred in Australia of Captain W. J. Wyllie, formerly one of the best-known ship masters in the New Zealand trade, aged 69 years. Prior to his retirement in 1935 after 45 years’ service with the company, Captain Wyllie was commodore of the Huddart-Parker Line.

Mr L. V. Fogarty, late of the Bay of Plenty, has been appointed manager of the Radio Department of the Masterton branch of C. Kemp Goodin. Mr Fogarty is opening this new section of the firm’s business in Masterton though radio has been an important phase of Mr Goodin’s Carterton business for years. Mr D. E. Parton, of Christchurch, and formerly of Masterton, was a guest at the Optimist Club meeting last night and received a hearty welcome. Mr Parton was formerly a wellknown Wairarapa and Christchurch cricketer and has been the Wairarapa delegate on the New Zealand Cricket Association for many years. Reference to the death of Mr C. E. Daniell was made at the meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board today by the chairman (Mr H. H. Mawley), who said Mr Daniell had been indirectly connected with the board, and had done much for the progress of the Wairarapa. Those present stood as a mark of respect to Mr Daniell’s memory.

Visitors to Masterton who are staying at the Midland Hotel are:—Mr and Mrs D. A. Ritchie (Waipawa), Mr and Mrs D. G. Young (Wanganui), Mr and Mrs Lindsay Gordon, Clive (Hawke’s Bay), Mr and Mrs Handy (Waipawa), Mr and Mrs Purvis Hay (Haunui), Mrs L. Nolan (Hastings) Sir Francis Fraser, Mr Steele (Wellington), Mr P. Darragh and Mr T. Quinn (Wellington), Mr M. Tyrell (Palmerston North). The Commissioner of Police, Mr D. J. Cummings .will leave for Australia at the end of this week to attend a conference of commissioners of police of the Australian States, which is to open in Brisbane on July 31. In making this announcement last night, the Minister in Charge of the Police Department, Mr Fraser, said that various matters affecting police administration would be discussed. Similar conferences had been held previously in Australia, the last in Melbourne two years ago, but this would be the first occasion on which New Zealand had been represented. The death has occurred in Timaru of Mr George Bowker, whose widow, formerly Miss Lena W. Young, is a daughter of the late Mr Andrew Young, a prominent figure in connection with Wellington’s street transport system before the introduction of the electric tramways. His daughter was well known in amateur operatic performances in Wellington. The late Mr Bowker was one of Timaru’s most prominent business men. He began his career in a firm of shipping and commission agents in South Africa, and, returning to Timaru in 1904, entered the sharebroking and estate agency business, which he conducted till his retirement in 1936. He had held many public positions in Timaru, and made two gifts of land to the town for the purpose of improving its public parks.