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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1939, Page 4

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Mr J. Carruthers, of Albert Street, Masterton. successfully underwent an operation for appendicitis at the Glenwood Hospital. Mr J. T. Martin, managing director of Messrs Wright Stephenson and Co., has been appointed a director of the New Zealand Insurance Company. The condition of Mr Owen Cassey, Wellington, who was injured when a service car overturned early on Saturday morning, is reported to be satisfactory. Mr Charles Stewart, Junr., pipe-ma-jor of the Wellington Caledonian Society’s Pipe Band, left Wellington on Thursday night to begin Air Force training in the South Island. Dr. E. P. Allen, formerly of New Plymouth, has been appointed radiologist at the New Plymouth Hospital. After graduating at Otago University. Dr. Allen was radium officer at the Cancer Hospital, London, for a year, and was awarded the Chester-Beatty Scholarship for radiological research, under which he spent a year at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, New York. He is at present radiologist at the Leicester General Infirmary.

Sir Harry Lindsay, K.C.1.E., C.8.E., honorary treasurer of the Royal Empire Society, has left England on his way to Australia and New Zealand. He is travelling across the United States, visiting the New York World Fair and the San Francisco Exposition, and will cross the Pacific to Auckland from Vancouver, via Fiji. He is to spend the last three weeks of November in New Zealand and all of December in Australia, and will return to England by air. Sir Harry is director of the Imperial Institute in South Kensington, and his primary object in making the tour is to interest the Dominions in the work of the institute.

Twenty-one consecutive years as secretary of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association will have been completed at the end of this month by Mr Baxter O’Neill, Christchurch, a well-known journalist. The president, Mr F. G. Dunn, at the annual conference in Wellington on Saturday said that this must be a record in the sporting world. It was no exaggeration to say that the association’s good position was the result of the wonderful enthusiasm, knowledge and loyalty that Mr O’Neill had put into his work over the 21 years. The association was formed in January, 1890, and 1940 will be its jubilee year. Mr O’Neill has prepared a history of the association. Numerous greetings from all sections of the community and many from other parts of the Dominion were received on the occasion of the ninety-second birthday on Saturday of Mr Matthew Goodger, one of Hasting’s best-known residents. Mr Goodger has become widely known throughout New Zealand through (50 years’ association with lhe sport of racing. During this time he has ridden and trained many prominent horses; and in spite of his age he is still an ardent follower of the turf and a familiar figure at Hawke’s Bay meetings. He ‘came to New Zealand with his parents from the Auckland Islands 84 years ago, and in his younger days was one of the best-known and most successful jockeys in the Dominion. He has lived in Hastings for 33 years, and has become an extremely popular figure in the town.