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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1940, Page 4

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Mr Ray Gaskin and Mr G. Harding, of Masterton, are on a motor trip m the Tauranga and Rotorua districts. Sir Francis Frazer has been elected chairman of the council ol the New Zealand School of Agriculture. Gunner Maurice C. Cole, oi die Second Echelon, is visaing his parents. Mr and Mrs Fred Cole. Chapel Street, Mastertou.

Mr Stanley Allan and family, Renall Street, Masterton. and Mr W. Clapperton, of Lansdowne, are spending the Easter holidays at Castlepoint. The Hon Mr Justice Fair, who has been on leave since the end of last vear will resume his duties in the Supreme Court after the Easter vacation. The Rev D. D. Thorpe, vicar of All Saints’ Church. Hokitika, has been appointed a chaplain to the Thiio Echelon of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Mr H. W. Shove, president of the New Zealand Manufacturers Association, who is a public accountant practising in Auckland, has been appointed by the National Council of the Young Men’s Christian Association as its overseas commissioner. He is expected to leave with the Third Echelon. Dr J. G. Gibbs, plant pathologist, who has been associated with the Agricultural Department for the last 12 years in Palmerston North, and recently in Auckland, has left for Chatham Islands, where he is to be agricultural adviser for the Government for three years.

The Hon Adam Hamilton, Leader of the Opposition, who has been on a recruiting tour of New Zealand, arrived at Ashburton from Westport on Wednesday night and was the guest of Mr and Mrs J. 11. Grigg. Longbeach. He left on Thursday morning to spend Easter in Invercargill and will return to Wellington and go back to the South Island for the Akaroa Centennial celebrations on March 30. Colonel J. Hargest, M.C.. D. 5.0., was entertained by returned soldiers in Riverton last Saturday night, before his departure for Wellington to take over the command of the sth Infantry Brigade. The chair was occupied by Mr G. Cloughly, president of Hie local Returned Soldier:'.' Association, who praised Colonel Hargest for his work as a citizen, a soldier and a . politician. The death has occurred in St. Andrew's, Scotland, of Mr C. J. Crawford. a former well-known Wellington resident, aged '73 years. Before his departure about 30 years ago to live in Scotland. Mr Crawford took a keen interest in local body affairs in Wellington. He was mayor of Miramar for some years before the borough amalgamated with the city of Wellington. He and his brother. Mr Alex Crawford, were instrumental in developing a large area of the Miramar peninsula. Mr Crawford was particularly interested in polo, and was an outstanding player in his day. He is survived by ilis wife and seven children.