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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1940, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Rev J. H. Starnes, Presbyterian Minister in Dannevirke, has left to accept a call to the Bay of Plenty. The appointment of Mr L. T. Daniell as representative of farming interests on the local petrol rationing investigation committee was confirmed at yesterday’s meeting of the Wairarapa Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union. Mr Kenneth Slessor, at present associate editor of "Smith’s Weekly," has been appointed official war correspondent with the Australian forces abroad at a salary of £750 a year, a Sydney cablegram reports. The retirement of Mr A. N. Wallace, chief postmaster in Palmerston North! was marked by a gathering of staff members at which a presentation was made to Mr and Mrs Wallace of a silver tea and coffee service.

Messrs F. Lee and H. Grundy (Palmerston North), D. Wild, R. Hynes, E. Meaken, E. Morpeth, W. Kerry, J. Ronald, J. Thorburn, C. Lamberg (Wellington) are guests at the Hotel Midland (Masterton) today. The All Black and Manawatu Rugby forward Mr R. McKenzie, who played for Kia Toa in the annual Pirates’ tournament in Wellington during Easter, has retired from the game. Mr McKenzie played during three tours to Australia, and was a member of the side that went to England in 1935. Major J. C. Holmes, of Masterton, officer commanding the machine gun company, Hawke’s Bay Regiment, left today for Trentham Camp to take command of the Sixth Anti-Tank Battery with the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Major Holmes will probably leave New Zealand with the Third Echelon.

Mr lan D. Cameron, North Island vice-president, has been appointed by the New Zealand Pipe Bands' Association to present to the Wairarapa College Pipe Band the cups won at the recent Dominion • Centennial contest. The presentation will be made on Thursday afternoon next. The death of Sub-Lieutenant David L. Clark, R.N.R., occurred, suddenly at his residence in Napier on Saturday, at the age of 48. For more than 13 years Sub-Lieutenant Clark commanded the Margaret W. and the Tiroa, trading under the Gisborne Sheepfarmers’ Refrigerating and Mercantile Company. He saw four years of naval service during the last war and was shortly to have taken up an appointment as master of a naval patrol vessel. He is survived by his wife.

There was a large and representative attendance at the funeral, which took place in Masterton yesterday, of Mrs Rupert Welch. Services at the residence and graveside were conducted by the Ven Archdeacon E. J. Rich. The pall-bearers were Messrs Hugh Morrison, O. A. Wyeth, J. Coradine, C. T. Welch, A. Welch, and A. H. Yule. Among the large number of floral tributes received were wreaths from the Kaituna and Fernridge branch of the Women’s Institute and the manager and staff of Levin and Co, Masterton.