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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1939, Page 6

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Miss Ivy Kirk, has been appointed to the position of Laboratory and X-Ray Technician at the Masterton Hospital. Guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel. Masterton, include Messrs Adams (Wanganui), G. R. Watson, J. B. Peart, and A. W. Foote (Wellington). The death has occurred in Brisbane of Mr Ronald K. Oxenham, the wellknown cricketer, who played Test cricket in Australia but was never chosen for an English tour. He was 43 years of age. As a result of complications arising from war wounds, Mr G. G. Hancox. Principal of Wairarapa College, has had to enter a private hospital in Palmerston North. It is understood that Mr Hancox will remain there for some weeks. It was reported by the Lewisham Hospital authorities last night that the condition of the Prime Minister, Mr Savage, continued to be satisfactory, a Wellington message states. A similar report was made regarding the condition of the Minister of Labour (Mr Webb). The death occurred yesterday afternoon in Wellington, of Captain William Shilling, who was in his 91st year, and who was for many years a pilot in the service of the Wellington Harbour Board. Born in Boughton, near Faversham, Kent, England, on November 5, 1848, Captain Shilling went to sea as a boy and voyaged in sailing- ships to many parts of the world. As a member of the crew of the ship St. Vincent, he arrived in Wellington in 1869. He left the ship in this port and she was wrecked shortly afterward in Palliser Bay, with the loss of most of her crew. Captain Shilling spent some years in coastal sailing vessels. In 1878 he joined the pilot service of the Wellington Provincial Government, as coxswain and assistant pilot under Captain Lancelot Holmes. The pilot station was in Worser Bay and the pilots went off to ships in whale-boats. Captain Shilling was for 65 years a member of the Foresters' Lodge, Court Sir George Bowen, and was said to be its oldest member. For more than 50 years he was a member of the Waterloo Masonic Lodge. His wife died about two years ago.