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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 May 1940, Page 4

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The Hon. P. Fraser. Prime Minister returned to Wellington from Aucklanc by aeroplane yesterday. Mr S. W. Gilligan, is the guest o: Mr and Mrs L. B. Maunsell, Master' ton.

The friends of Mr H. M. Morton will regret to learn that he is indisposed and has had to enter hospital for treatment.

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.

Mr. G. J. Burrell, lecturer in mechanical engineering at Canterbury University College, will leave shortly to take up a similar position at the University of Tasmania. Messrs W. Letham (Napier), R. Carty (Nelson), M. Kirschberg, W. Rusbridge, C. Lamberg, G. Whittaker, T. Quinn, J. Miller, J. Carter and P. C. Jordan (Wellington), are guests at the Hotel Midland, Masterton. Mr. Webb Miller, newspaper correspondent ,was found dead on a railway line near Clapham Junction early yesterday, a London cablegram reports. He had apparently fallen dead on his way home from describing the debate in the House of Commons. Mr. Miller was a correspondent in the Great war and covered campaigns in Russia, Abyssinia, Spain and Finland. He was the author of “I Found No Peace.” At the conclusion of business at a meeting of the St John Ambulance Brigade (Men’s Division), held last evening, the opportunity was taken to farewell one of the members, Mr R. McPhail, who leaves for Burnham camp shortly. Mr J. C. Cooper (superintendent of the Brigade) spoke in eulogistic terms of the good service rendered to the brigade by Mr McPhail and asked him to accept a Rolls razor set as a gift from his fellow Brigadesmen, and wished him bon voyage and a safe return. Mr McPhail suitably responded.

After a brief illness the death occurred yesterday in Wellington of Mr. Ernest Edward Gillon. formerly a prominent engineering official in the Railways Department, and son of the late Mr. E. T. Gillon. a former editor of the "Evening Post." Mr. Gillon. who was 72 years of age. was born in Dunedin. After leaving school at the age of 16 he entered the Railways Department as an apprentice in 1884. He was eventually appointed to the head office where he succeeded the late Mr. H. H. Jackson as chief mechanical engineer, a position he held till his retirement in 1924.