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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1939, Page 4

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The death is announced of Mr George Felix Harris, a director of the New Zealand and Allied Shipping Companies, London cablegrame states. Dr W. P. Gordon, Stratford, has returned to New Zealand after a’ visit to England. He was accompanied by his wife, Dr Doris Gordon, and their two sons.

Mr Malcolm Miller, formerly a wellknown New Zealand singer, and now vicar choral of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, has been commissioned for the Royal Air Force as officer air gunner, ranking as acting-pilot. Mr S. G. Cresswell, formerly of Masterton, who has been secretary of the Wellington Competitions Society since 1935, has resigned that position. The appointment of his successor will be one of the first duties of the new executive to be elected next week. One of the best known officers in the shipping business in New Zealand, Captain A. J. Charman. marine superintendent te the Shaw Savill and Albion Company, Ltd., for the South Island. will retire at the end of this year, after 50 years of unbroken service with the company. Visitors to Masterton who have signed the register recently at the Hotel Midland, are Dr and Mrs J. Fredrick Staton, London; Messrs J. Mason, Hastings; J. Sogan, A. Falconer and B. C. Rudman. Auckland; L. H. Govan, Christchurch; C. Chetwin and D. Morris, Palmerston North; J. Field, Gisborne; A. Tait, Napier; J. Barrott and H. Grundy, Hastings; M. Jenkins, J. Du Luen and B. Sheen. Wellington. The- death has occurred of Mr J. S. Harrison, aged 63, of Wanganui. Before the Great War Mr Harrison was manager of the Wanganui branch of Messrs Wright Stephenson and Company, Ltd. He enlisted for active service overseas and on his return in 1918, when he was invalided back to New Zealand, again took up the management of the firm in Wanganui. Some years later he retired from active business and took up a farm at Raorikia. but he still continued on the advisory board of Wright Stephenson’s. His wife survives him.

One of the former Bay of Islands shore whalers, Mr David Henry Kydd, Rawhiti, died on Sunday in the Kawakawa Hospital. He was a half-brother of the well-known whalers, the Cook brothers, members of a family associated with whaling in the Pacific and in New Zealand long before the formal settlement of the country. When a youth, the late Mr Kydd was a member of the boat’s crew which harpooned the first whale to be caught in a net in New Zealand. His strength was used to great advantage during some years as a bushman. When timber dams in the hills were being constructed, he used to earn extra pay carrying up heavy planks which normally required two men, but which in the difficult country were actually more easily handled by one if of sufficient strength. Subsequently Mr Kydd engaged in sheep-farming at Whangamumu and later took up other land at Rawhiti. He leaves a widow and a large family.