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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

A colourful sporting figure, Mr Rufe Naylor, died suddenly in Sydney yesterday following a heart seizure. MrNaylor in his time had been a promoter of foot races and boxing matches, and a paddock bookmaker.

Mr W. J. Shanly has resigned from the Ministerial secretarial corps to accept an administrative position at the Royal Air Force station at Wigram. He was private secretary to the Minister of Housing, Mr Armstrong. According to a Wellington press message Mr Paul Falla, a son of Mr N. S. Falla, of Wellington, and a member of the staff of the British Embassy at Warsaw until the Ambassador’s withdrawal, is being transferred to Ankara. Mr David\ H. Graham. F.R.M.S., F.Z.S., Christchurch, has been appointed by the Government to carry out an investigation into the cockroach pest which has been causing concern at tourist resorts in the North Island.

Mr W. J. Mountjoy, secretary of the Wellington Employers’ Association, who was the employers’ representative on the New Zealand delegation to the 1.L.0. conference in Geneva in June, is expected to arrive back in New Zealand this week. The Rt Rev T. E. Riddle, moderator of the Presbyterian Church, who left for Australia at the beginning of the month, is returning to Auckland soon. He will be in New Zealand for some months before going back to his mission work in the Punjab, India. Messrs R. Royston, R. Morgan, G. Borman, R. J. McKay, Forest, F. H. Sim, Marks, S. Teasdale (Wellington), T. Adams (Palmerston North), S. Robinson (Levin), and J. Scott (Orui Station), are staying at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton.

Mr J. M. Dawson, president of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, with his wife and daughter, are at St Abb’s in Scotland. It is understood that Mr and Mrs Dawson visited France and Germany just before the outbreak of war. They expect to leave for New Zealand early in October.

The death has occurred following a shooting accident of Mr Richard K. Effingham, youngest son of Mr and Mrs H. E. Effingham, Allen Street, Dannevirke. He was 33 years of age. Formerly he was a well-known Southern Hawke’s Bay resident, engaging in farming pursuits. He was a Dannevirke representative Rugby player. His widow survives him.

The body of Acting-Pilot Officer Alan George Whitehead, of the Royal Air Force and late of Palmerston North, has been recovered from the sea, according to advice received in Wanganui. Acting-Pilot Officer Whitehead. was drowned as the result of an aircraft accident on September 12. He was at a training station at Fern Hill, Shropshire, and his last letter advised that he had gained his wings. Mi’ Lau Fu Chung, the proprietor of the Great North China Troupe, which performed in Masterton last/night is a highly-educated Chinese, Whose family has considerable interests in Hong Kong and in other places in the East. His brother, Mr Lau Tuk Po, is managing director of the Hong Kong Ferry Company, which has sixty steamers plying between Hong Kong and different points in Kowloon, including a big vehicular ferry. Mr Thomas Campbell, who was born in Karori 85 years ago and lived in that district all his life, died on Sunday, after a brief illness His father, the late Mr John Campbell, who arrived at Wellington in 1841, had taken up one of the bush sections before there was any road leading over the hills. Mr Thomas Campbell continued to farm these lands till he retired some 30 years ago. He served on the old Karori Borough Council, was a member at one time of the Karori School Committee, Karori Football Club and Karori Bowling Club. It was on the Campbell farm that the first contingent of mounted men for South Africa were trained. Mr Campbell is survived by four sons and one daughter.