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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1940, Page 4

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The Governor-General, Lord Galway, as Dominion Chief Scout, has approved the award of the Silver Cross of the’ Boy Scout Association to David Stanley McLenaghan, aged 13, of the Somerfield Methodist Troop, Christchurch. Last January, at risk of his own life, Scout McLenaghan saved Brian Spurr from drowning at Okains Bay, Banks Peninsular, and made two gallant but unsuccessful endeavours to rescue Desmond Spurr. Messrs J. R. H. Cooksey and C. Jergesen are Wellington visitors at the Hotel Midland, Masterton. The Rev. A. S. Moffatt, Hinds, has received cabled advice that his son, Sergeant Pilot Moffatt, -who was reported missing, is safe. The Rev. W. Reyburn, of Hastings, the oldest Presbyterian minister in the Dominion, who has retired, attained his ninety-sixth birthday on Wednesday. He had had more than 50 years’ service in St. Andrew’s Church, Wairoa. Mr G. M. Smith was re-elected chairman of the Auckland division of the National Party at a recent meeting, and it was decided to recommend that Mr H. Clinton Savage be appointed by the annual conference as vice-president of the party, representing the division. Word was received yesterday of the death of Mrs C. A. Mothes, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs R. D. Sutherland, Nelson. Mrs F. B. Pickering, The Terrace, Lansdowne, is another daughter. Mr and Mrs Pickering left for Nelson today.

Mr C. J. Playne has been appointed assistant Public Trustee, in succession to Mr W. M. Barr, who has retired on superannuation. Mr Playne is at present controller of the estates division at the head office at Wellington.

Australian newspapers have printed cables in which C. E. Malfroy, the New Zealander and Davis Cup tennis player, is mentioned as one of those who distinguished themselves in a recent R.A.F. raid which resulted in seven German planes being shot down before breakfast. Advice has been received by Mr and Mrs' E. Innes-Jones, Hamilton, that their son, Sergeant Observer Melville Innes-Jones, who is in the Royal Air Force, has been badly wounded and is dangerously ill in Ipswich Hospital, England. Sergeant Innes-Jones, who is 23, has been attached to the Air Force for six and a half years. Mr J. R. H. Cooksey, Dominion Commissioner’ for Training Scouts, has just completed a tour of the South Island, and is now in Masterton visiting local Scout groups. He will leave for Hawke’s Bay on Tuesday, continuing his tour of the North Island for the purpose of encouraging the Scout Movement throughout the Dominion. The Rev Brian Kilroy, minister of St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Wellington, has received invitations to occupy the pulpits of Scots Church, Melbourne, and Scots Church Sydney. In the present circumstances Mr Kilroy feels it would be unfair to be absent even for a short period from his own congregation, and he has reluctantly declined the invitation from Melbourne. As that from Sydney is for a period later in the year he has provisionally accepted. The death occurred on Thursday of Mr Daniel O’Meara, a well-known resident of Hastings, who practically all his life has been closely allied to stud stock and the turf. Mr O’Meara was born in 1873 in Ireland, and came to New Zealand with his parents when only two years old. From his early boyhood days he was interested in horseflesh, and later became associated with the well-known Te Mahanga Stud, established by the late Mr William Douglas, and later carried on by the late W. J. and A. F. Douglas. When the Te Mahanga Stud was dispersed some years ago, Mr O’Meara retired.

The death has occurred at the age of 76. of Mr William George Kyifyn Kenrick. who was for 24 years magistrate in various parts of New Zealand, states a Press Association message from Auckland. Mr Kenrick, who was born at Oxford, Canterbury, was a son of Mr Harry Kenrick, who was warden and resident magistrate on the Hauraki goldfields from 1879 to 1888. the period when the Te Aroha and Waihi fields were opened. As magistrate Mr Kenrick was stationed on the West Coast goldfields, in South Otago. Hawke’s Bay. Taranaki, and Rotorua. He retired in 1928. Mr Kenrick is survived by his wife and two sons, one of whom, Lieut-Colonel S. Kenrick, is serving with the second echelon, and one daughter.