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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1940, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Hon R. Semple, Minister of Public Works, will return to Wellington today from the South Island.

Mr D. W. Madden has been reelected unopposed as president of the St Patrick’s College Old Boys’ Association, Wellington. Mr E. S. Taylor, Amberley. North Canterbury, has been elected president of the Canterbury Agricultural" and Pastoral Association in succession to Mr W. O. Rennie.

A motion of sympathy with the chairman. Mr 11. 11. Mawley, who is a patient in Glenwood Hospital, was passed at the meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board this morning.

Messrs J. Harris (Auckland!, M.Knight (Oamaru), 11. J. Whitlaw, C. V. Ames (Wellington) and A. R. Brannigan (Alfredton) were at the Prince of Wales Hotel yesterday. A motion of sympathy with the Prime Minister. Mr Savage, in his illness, and expressing the hope that he would soon be restored to health was carried at the annual meeting of the Wellington Chamber of • Commerce last night. The death occurred recently in Christchurch of Mr Thomas Martin Lewington,. who was well known throughout New Zealand in overseas shipping services, having been for more than 40 years employed by the New Zealand Shipping Company as foreman carpenter for New Zealand. During the Boer War and the Great War, Mr Lewington was responsible for the fitting up of all the company’s steamers as transports for troops and horses proceeding overseas. Mr Lewington was a Past Master of the Unanimity Masonic Lodge. He was an active member of the Church of England, and for many years was a vestryman of the Holy Trinity Church. Lyttelton. St. Mark's Church, Opawa, and St. Michael's Church, Christchurch.

An announcement of three appointments to the Trust Board to administer the income from the £lOO,000, which he recently gave for charitable and educational purposes, was made by Mr J. R. McKenzie at a meeting of the Wellington Rotary Club yesterday. Mr J. S. Barton, C.M.G., has been nominated by the GovernorGeneral. Mr C. H. Weston. K.C., has been nominated by the Chief Justice. Colonel F. T. Bowerbank. 0.8. E., Di-rector-General of Medical Services (Army and Air Force), has been selected as the representative of the British Medical Association. Other members of the board are the district governor for the time being of the Rotary Clubs in the Dominion affiliated to Rotary International, and the presidents for the time being of the Rotary Clubs of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.

The death occurred in the public hospital on Saturday of Mr Leonard I'. Dawson, after a long illness, states a Press Association message from Tauranga. Born in Wellington in 1881 and educated there, Mr Dawson began life as a teacher at a Wairarapa school, but afterward took over his father’s farm at Forty Mile Bush, in the same district. He farmed successfully (ill ill-health forced his retirement when he was 40 years of age. He returned to Wellington, where he remained for three years, and then went to Levin, where lie continued for 15 years. He went, on to Palmerston North, but through continued illhealth came to Tauranga, whore Tie resided for two years till his death. He leaves a widow, two daughters (Mrs J. N. Townsley, Palmerston North, and Mrs L. B. Cameron, Gisborne), and two sons (Messrs D. Dawson, Wellington, and Peter Dawson, Tauranga).