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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1939, Page 4

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Messrs A. G. Edey. P. Simm, J. Ronald (Wellington) are among guests at the Hotel Midland.

Sir Charles Norwood, accompanied by Lady Norwood, will leave by the Mariposa from Auckland today for the United States and England. Following a residence of 66 years in the Hawera district, the death has occurred of Mr Arthur Newell, of Fraser Road, near Hawera, within a month of his eighty-second birthday. His wife died in 1923, and he is survived by three sons and three daughters. Mr G. G. Hill, who arrived in New Zealand to join the staff of the Civil Aviation department only three weeks ago, was a visitor to Masterton on Saturday. Mr Hill attended the Point toPoint meeting of the Wairarapa Paperchase Club on Saturday afternoon. A Dunedin message records the death of Mrs A. M. Shackleford, a foundation member of the Otago branch of the New Zealand Trained Nurses’ Association, and who as an early member of the council did much to influence others in the ethical side of the profession. She was also a familiar figure at the Otago Women’s Club, of which she was also a foundation member. Mr Richard Ballantyne Philbrich Smith, a prominent sheepfarmer of the Akitio district, died last week in the Te Puia Springs Hospital, where he underwent an operation from which he failed to recover. When he was taken ill he was visiting a property in the Tokomaru district in which he had an interest. For many years Mr Smith was in partnership with Mr Herbert Humphries, Napier, in the well-known Mariananga Station, which about a year ago was divided between the partners. Mr Smith was a well-known breeder of Aberdeen Angus cattle, and his stud included some of the finest strains of the breed. He leaves a wife and grown-up family.