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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1939, Page 6

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The Governor-General, Lord Galway, yesterday inspected Burnham Camp. He expressed pleasure at the standard of men in the Special Force. “We do not know in what part of the world the full force of your efforts will be employed, but I am confident that you will carry on the tradition of the New Zealand Division in the last war,” he said. Mr John Cullen, 1.5.0., formerly Commissioner of Police, died in a private hospital at Auckland on Thursday night in his eighty-ninth year. Mr J. Mercer has been elected chairman of. the management committee of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association for the sixth year in succession. Mr R. Vile, of Greytown, who collapsed on Thursday while waiting outside his office for a car to proceed to the Carterton Show is reported to be making a good recovery. Mr F. W. Dawson, formerly general manager of the Bank of New Zealand, has been appointed to a seat on the board of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. Dr I. E. Coop, a graduate of Canterbury University College, who recently returned to New Zealand after carrying out advanced study in physical chemistry at Oxford and in biochemistry at Cambridge, has been appointed to the plant chemistry section of the Plant Research Bureau, Palmerston North.

Dr. K. F. M. Uttley, formerly of Masterton, who has been a member of every Plunket Shield team that has represented Otago in the past, six seasons, will not be available for provincial matches that may be played this season, as he is to leave in a few weeks to take up an appointment as a house surgeon at Greymouth. Apart from A. R. Knight, who has played over a much longer period, Uttley has scored more runs for Otago in these games than any other batsman who has performed exclusively for this province. If he is given credit for the runs he has saved by his brilliant fielding, his performance appears the more notable.

The death occurred suddenly at Wellington on Thursday of Mr Robert Duncan, of Dunedin, who went there at the beginning of the week to attend the annual conference of’ the Boys’ Brigade of which he was Dominion president. Mr Duncan was born in Glasgow in 1868 and on going to Dunedin he entered the service of Messrs Ross and Glendining with which firm he remained for more than 30 years as departmental buyer and later as factory manager. He subsequently joined the firm ,of Alex Thompson and Sons Ltd., of which he became the managing director. He vzas a member of the Dunedin City Council in 1909 and served for a term but he took no further part in local politics till 1932 when he was appointed by the Government to a seat on the Otago Harbour Board.