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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1940, Page 4

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Mr F. Maurice Clarke has been appointed general manager of Union Airways of New Zealand, Ltd. The Hon. F. Jones. Minister of Defence. returned to Wellington from Auckland by aeroplane yesterday. Messrs C. Davies (Wanganui), H. Govan (Christchurch), B. Kiely, J. Forsyth. J. Corbett. H. Carey (Wellington). H. Grundy (Palmerston North), are at the Hotel Midland. Masterton. Mr. A. E. Prentice and Mr. R. Whyborn left for Wellington today, where they will attend the Dominion Conference of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association.

Mr L. S. W. McKenzie was reelected chairman of the Wellington Colleges Board of Governors at yesterday’s meeting of the board. There was one other nomination, that of Mr W. H. Denton.

Mr R. H. Clark, who has been with Ihe Wheat Purchase Board and. the Wheat Committee for the last seven years, has been appointed secretaryaccountant to the Co-operative Dairy Company of Otago, Ltd., Dunedin. Sir Louis Barnett, Otago district surgeon of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, has been appointed surgeon-in-chief for the Dominion in succession to Dr. C. D. Henry, who has resigned because of ill-health ■ and has been transferred to the reserve.

The death occurred at Christchurch on Monday of Mi- Francis Henry Brittan at the age of 93. Besides being one of Canterbury’s oldest settlers, arriving in Lyttelton in 1852, Mr Brittan held the honour of owning Royalty, the winner of New Zealand’s first Grand National Steeplechase in 1876. The death occurred at the Masterton Hospital on Monday night of Mr George Thomas, at the age of 78 years. The late Mr Thomas had been employed for some years past on Mr George Moore's property, "Eparaima,” East Coast. The funeral took place this afternoon.

At a large gathering of journalists in Wellington yesterday a wrist watch was presented to Mr J. H. Flail, who has been appointed official war correspondent with the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. The president of the New Zealand Journalists’ Association, Mr A. A. Hardcastle, who made the presentation, said the whole weight of journalistic opinion was that no one was,better equipped than MiHall for. the task to which he had been appointed. The Minister ol Industries and Commerce, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan (an old journalistic colleague of Mr Hall) and the Director of 'Publicity -Mr J. T. Paul) also bore witness to Mr Hall’s attainments and to the respect in which he was held.