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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1939, Page 4

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Mr Charles Burgess, of Mangamaire, is undergoing treatment at the Pahiatua Hospital. Mr R. S. Moor,, of the Masterton Telephone Exchange, is spending his annual leave in Hamilton and Auckland. Sir John Dill, at present an Army Corps commander, has been promoted to the rank of general, a London cablegram reports. Messrs A. Purdie, Bettleheim (Gisborne) and P. McGaskill (Wellington), are visitors to Masterton and are staying at the Empire Hotel. Flight Lieutenant F. L. Truman, instructor to the Waikato Aero Club, has received notice of his appointment as an Air Force flying instructor at Blenheim. Messrs F. Johnstone (Havelock North), J. F. Couper (Wellington), T. S. White (Ashburton), and A. Tunnycliffe (Alfredton), are staying at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton. Mr C. E. Robertson, manager of the stud stock department of Wright, Stephenson and Company, Wellington, has returned from a' visit to North America and Great Britain. Mr W. R. Carey, general manager of the Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Company, has been appointed president of the New Zealand Woollen Mill Owners’ Association in place of the late Mr James Evans. It was fifty years ago last Friday since Mr Reg Pinhey arrived in Masterton from England by the steamer Ruapehu. Mr Pinhey has resided in Masterton ever since, having retired from business several years ago.

The Rt Rev H. St Barbe Holland, Bishop of Wellington, has decided to return to New Zealand at an early opportunity, according to advice received by • the Vicar-General, Arch/deacon W. Bullock. The bishop expects to arrive at Wellington late next month, oi’ early (in December. The distinguished New Zealand archaeologist, Dr A. D. Trendall, has been appointed professor of Greek in the University of Sydney. Dr Trendall is 30. He has recently been lecturing on the recent excavations in Italy and on Roman art at the four universities of New Zealand. The Rev G. H. Jupp, Anderson’s Bay, Dunedin, who has been nominated by the Christchurch Presbytery for the office of Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church for 1940-41, has also been nominated for the office by the Auckland Presbytery. Messrs P. Simm. B. Kiely, J. Fitzgerald, L. Page, H. A. Taylor, B. Lambergh, R. Shanaghan (Wellington), C. S. Tunney (Christchurch), J. A. Davis (Dunedin), S. ■ Harper (Palmerston North), and H. D. Costello (Hastings), are visitors to Masterton, and are staying at the Hotel Midland. A well-known Napier resident, Mr David Barry, a partner in the firm of Barry Brothers, contractors and Customs agents, Port Ahuriri,’ died suddenly at about 10 o’clock yesterday morning. Mr Barry collapsed while working in the garden at his residence in Latham Street and died almost immediately. He was about 52 years of age. Superintendent J. Lander, Wanganui, will retire from the Police Force at the end of this month. He joined the force in Palmerston North in 1899. He was stationed in Foxton before going to Napier, after which he had charge of Te Awamutu for eight years. In 1915 he was appointed sectional-ser-geant in Auckland, and in 1921 he was promoted to senior-sergeant and transferred to Wellington, where he was promoted to the rank of sub-inspector. On April 1, 1930, he was promoted to the rank of inspector attached to headquarters staff as relieving inspector throughout the Dominion. He was promoted to superintendent at the beginning of this year and, as he was close to retirement, remained in charge of the Wanganui district instead of moving to a metropolitan centre. Mr George William Lloyd, a leading worker in the interests of returned soldiers and a former president of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association, died at his residence in Christchurch recently, after a long illness. Mr Lloyd was born in Dunedin in 1870 and educated at the Otago Boys’ High School. He was noted as a runner over middle distances, and he won the Druids’ Handicap in Melbourne in 1892. This was one of the principal events in Australia in those days. In 1892 he married a daughter of Captain Logan. For many years he was a well-known worker in the interest of friendly societies in Christchurch. He served in the Great War with the Rifle Brigade, and on his return to New Zealand took a keen interest in returned soldiers. Mr Lloyd was elected to the executive of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association in 1919, remaining a member till 1933. when he retired because of ill-health. Ho was president of the association in 1928 and 1929. and Dominion vice-president in 1931.