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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1940, Page 4

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Ivlcisrs G. Cameron and M. O'Sullivan (Wellington) are at the Hotel Midland.

The Hon. F. Jones, Minister of Defence. has returned to Wellington from a visit to Auckland.

The Hon. R. Semple, Minister ot Public Works, will leave Wellington tomorrow night for a visit of inspection to public works in the South Westland district.

Mr T. C. Lowry, a former New Zealand cricket captain, and now sole selector of the New Zealand Cricket Association, has enlisted from Taihape for the Second Echelon.

The British Minister of Supply, Dr. Burgin, lias appointed Sir W. Charles Wright, to be Controller of Iron and Steel in place of Sir Andrew Duncan, who was recently appointed President of the Board of Trade, a British Official Wireless message states. The death has occurred of Mr James Alexander Bryce, aged 64, Cambridge. He was a son of the late Hon. John Bryce, being the youngest of a family of 15. His parents were original settlers at Brunswick, where he was born and educated. Mr Bryce is survived by his wife, four sons and one daughter.

Seriously wounded while serving on the Achilles during the engagement with the Graf Spee, Able Seaman E. V. Sherley, son of Mr and Mrs C. R. Sherley, Te Awamutu, is making a satisfactory recovery, according to a cablegram received by his parents through the Admiralty recently. Ths cablegram states: "In shore hospital. Being well cared for. Doing well. Season’s compliments." The death occurred at his home, Lower Hutt, yesterday morning of MiFrank Donnelly, a well-known member of the hairdressing trade in Welling ton, with which he was associated practically all his life. Mr Donnelly was « member of the Wellington Employers' Association for many years, and was also president of the Wellington Ladies’ Hairdressing Salon Proprietors' Industrial Union of Employers, which office he held up to the time of his death.

The death occurred at her home. Birchanger, Featherston Street, Palmerston North, of Mrs Alice Coombs. Born in 1857 in Essex. England. Mrs Coombs came to New Zealand in 1887. Mrs Coombs was a woman of outstanding character and ability, and took an active interest in religious and social welfare work. Her work on the patriotic society during the Great War was untiring, as was her work later as president of the Plunkel Society. Sister Leila Gray, who recently died after a short illness, was a daughter of Mrs E. Gray and the late George Alexander Gray, a member of a well Known Wellington family. Sister Gray, who received her nursing training at Wellington Hospital, served overseas with the First New Zealand Expeditionary Force, on the hospital ship Maram'a, and was subsequently stationed at Trentham Military Hospital fill her demobilisation. Shortly after she was appointed senior district nurse for Wellington in charge of the Nursing Guild of St. John, and later became visiting social welfare officer for Wellington Hospital, which position she held at the time of her illness.

Cabled advice has been received iron, the Air Ministry that Flying Officer John Denys Williams is reported missing and believed to have lost his life. Flying Officer Williams was the younger son of Mr and Mrs R. G. B. Williams. 68 Kaiuui Road. Wellington. He left New Zealand in 1937 to join the Royal Air Force, receiving his early training at Deptford, Hullavington and completing it at Thorney Island. He was promoted to Flying Officer and posted for duty at the R.A.F. Station in Ceylon. He distinguished himself in athletics last year by breaking the discus throwing record of the R.A.F. and also represented that service in the inter-services championships.