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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1939, Page 6

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Messrs Corbett and R. Blink home, of Palmerston North, are staying al the Prince of Wales Hotel. Masterton. Mr lari Lauder, Christchurch, an 1851 Exhibition Scholar, has just gained his D.Ph. of Manchester University. Mr P. Condon, of the Mauriceville Dairy Staff, who had been on a holiday tour of the’ South Island has returned to Mauriceville. The death occurred at Auckland on Tuesday night of Mr Leonard Earle Bayliss, formerly of Carterton, and brother of Mr H. D. Bayliss, of Greytown. At the annual congregational meeting of Knox Presbyterian Church, Dannevirke, a filled wallet was presented to Mr J. Martin, who has been associated with the church for 50 years , as a manager. Mr W. L. Hunter, of Masterton, received news this morning of the death of his father, Mr R. Hunter, a wellknown resident of Nelson. Mr Hunter is proceeding to Nelson today by plane. Mr G. G. Hancox, principal of Wairarapa College, who underwent an operation in a private hospital at Palmerston North about three Aveeks ago, has now left hospital. He is remaining in Palmerston North meantime. Pastor V. C. Stafford, who has been minister of the Church of Christ, Teviot Street, Invercargill, for almost five years, has accepted a call to the ministry of the Vivian Street Church, Wellington. He expects to leave Invercargill about the end of November. Pastor Stafford went to Invercargill from Taree, New South Wales.. Members of the Sixth Form of Wairarapa College l farewelled Rex Daniell at a pleasant gathering held in the Assembly Hall last night. Rex Daniell. who has been a pupil at the college for some years and this year was head boy, is leaving Masterton next week to take" up training in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He will proceed to England later. Dancing, games, and competitions were enjoyed and at the supper adjournment a presentation was made to the guest of the evening by K. McFarlane, who expressed on behalf of class comrades their best wishes for the future. The death occurred in Wellington on Monday of Mr John Smith Wilson, a son of Major Wilson, a wellknown figure in the Auckland province in the early days. On leaving school Mr Smith Wilson joined the Bank of New Zealand, and for some time was accountant to the Wellington branch. He left the bank to join Mr J. J. Bourke in business as a wool broker, and they traded for many years as Bourke, Wilson and Co., Ltd., with headquarters in Christchurch. In his early days Mr Smith Wilson was a noted tennis player, representing Wellington province on numerous occasions. He was also a golfer of considerable ability. Dr. Crawford C. McCullough. Fort William. Ontario. Canada, a former president of Rotary International, is to visit New Zealand early next month. Dr McCullough if> a charter member of the Rotary Club of Fort William, and a past-president’ of that club. He served as governor of the district in 1919-1920, and was chairman of the Canadian advisory committee, and also a member of the extension and convention committees. He served as first vice-president of Rotary International in 1920-21, and was president in 1921-22. Dr McCullough will be in Wellington on October 3. He will visit Christchurch and Dunedin, and then go to Auckland by way of Rotorua. He plans to leave New Zealand about the middle of October. The election of Mr A. E. Mabin, Wellington, as president, and of Mr David Allan, also of Wellington, as vice-president of the New Zealand Wool Brokers’ Association, was announced in Christchurch on Tuesday. Mr Mabin, who is general manager and a director of Levin and Co. Ltd., has been associated with tho New Zealand wool business for more than half a century. As president of the New Zealand Woolbrokers’ Association for eight years he was actively associated with the operations attendant upon the British Government’s purchase of New Zealand wool during the " Great War. Mr Mabin is also a director of the Bunk of New Zealand, of the Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Company, and of Sharland and Co., Ltd. In 1912-13 lie was president of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce.