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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 January 1940, Page 6

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The Hon P. Fraser, Minister of Education, will return to Wellington today from the north. Sir Francis Bell, of Wellington, is a visitor to Masterton, and is staying at the Hotel Midland. Mr T. A. Russell, Borough Sanitary Inspector, left Masterton today on annual holiday.

Messrs J. F. Bell (Auckland) and R. Ellison (Te Ante) are guests at the Midland Hotel, Masterton.

Lieut. A. W. Reynolds and SecondLieutenant L. D. Wales, of the Reserve of Officers, have been posted to the Ist Battalion Hawke’s Bay Regiment. The official representative of the Archbishop of San Francisco at the National Eucharistic Congress in Wellington, the Rt Rev Monsignor C. Ramm, has arrived at Auckland.

The Rev Father E. A. Forsman, of Ormond. Gisborne, has been called for service with the New Zealand Special Force, and will proceed to Burnham Camp to take up duty as a chaplain of the Roman Catholic faith. The Rev Norman Winhall, Vicar of Upper Hutt, has gone into camp at Ngaruawaha as an Anglican chaplain in the Second Echelon. Mr Winhall visited Masterton yesterday en route to camp. He is a son of Mr and Mrs E. Winhall, Masterton.

If no unforeseen circumstances arise, it is certain that the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr Menzies, will make an early visit to New Zealand. This was announced by the Australian Assistant Minister of Commerce, Senator Mcßride, in an interview last evening following his arrival in the flying-boat Aotearoa to represent the Commonwealth Government at the New Zealand Centennial celebrations. Senator Mcßride said Mr Menzies was very anxious to make the trip to the Dominion, but just at present he was unable to accept the invitation of the New Zealand Government owing to the need to organise the new Empire air training scheme. Advice that her youngest son, Sergeant Pilot Charles Denis Caldwell, R.A.F., is missing and believed to have been killed in operations on December 15 has been received by Mrs F. Caldwell, of St Heliers Bay. from the Minister of Housing, Mr Armstrong, on behalf of the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones. Sergeant Pilot Caldwell, who was born and educated in Auckland; joined the Royal Air Force in 1930 and was 26 years of age. He was one of the New Zealanders serving with the Royal Air Force who was selected to fly to the Dominion late last year with 30 Vickers-Welling-tons ordered by the New Zealand Government. These plans were changed, however, on the outbreak of war.