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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1939, Page 4

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Mr S. Milton. of Carterton. is visiting Palmerston North. The' Hon Wr E. Parry. Minister of Internal Affairs, returned to Wellington yesterday from Auckland.

Mrs David Caselberg, of Masterton, has returned from Eastbourne and has her mother, Mrs H. Harris, of Christchurch, staying with her. Mr Roderick Percy, of Masterton, who enlisted some time ago in the Special Military Force, left by the afternoon mail train today for Trentham Camp.

The following are guests at the Midland Hotel. Masterton:—Messrs J. Forsyth. T. Parnell, J. Kennedy. W. Royal. Palmerston North: A. H. Finlayson. Wellington; A. Rogers. Hastings; and G. Dwen, Auckland. Visitors to Masterton who are guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel are Messrs Norman Barrington and Lane Patterson, New Plymouth; P. Large, Poverty Bay; H. E. Rankin, Eketahuna; F. E. Grant. J. H. McElrea, R. L. Griffin and R. E. Farrell. Wellington. Empire Hotel (Masterton) guests this week have been Messrs J. A. Lee, M.P., Auckland; Bolton, Wanganui; Bardell and Riddler, Hawke’s Bay: Simpson, Palmerston North; Lillcrat. Conway, Neale, Cowley. Davies and Radcliffe, Wellington; Jones, Lower Hutt.

The death occurred at Dannevirke a few days ago of Mr J. Graham, who was at one time manager of Sir William Perry’s ■’Penrose” property. The late Mr Graham had been farming at Dannevirke for some years. He leaves a widow (nee Miss Colway, of Masteiton).

Mr G. M. Keys, formerly vocational guidance officer for 12 years with the Young Men’s Christian Association, Christchurch, is at present stationed at Derby, England, where he is in charge of 50 boys at a farm training centre. During his scholarship tour abroad. Mr Keys spent two months travelling in Europe, including a week at a YoungMen’s Christian Association conference in Holland before war was declared. He has since been associated in work for the Young Men’s Christian Association in London.

Lieutenant J. H. Hall-Kenny (Wellington), Lieutenant D. B. Patterson (Auckland), and Lieutenant E. Blow (Whangarei), who hold territorial commissions, have been accepted for the New Zealand unit formed in England. to be trained as an anti-tank unit. Lieutenant Hall-Kenny arrived in England in 1935 to study architecture at the London University, and two years ago joined a Mayfair firm of interior decorators. Formerly a lieutenant in-the 12th Coast Battery, Wellington, he continued his association with artillery work in England, and camped at Wcybourne with the 160th Anti-Aircraft Brigade in 1937.