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Messrs S. Swanson (Napier), G. H. Shepherdson, C. Jergesen, J. B. Hair (Wellington), were at the Hotel Midland, Masterton over the weekend.
Mr A. C. Russell has been re-elected chairman of the Waipukurau County Council for the twenty-fifth consecutive year.
Dr. R. G. Kingston, Timaru, has been appointed a surgeon in the Second New Zealand Base Hospital, and will go overseas with the third echelon. He will go into camp at Trentham this month.
Mr C. Mulholland, supervisor of the postal branch, Chief .Post Office, Wanganui, has been transferred on promotion as supervisor of the registration branch of the Chief Post Office, Auckland. Mr Mulholland \vas many years ago stationed in Masterton. The death occurred recently of Mr J. E. Wingate, a well-known settler of Pohangina Valley. Mr Wingate’s parents arrived in New Zealand in 1877. and he was born in Wellington in that year. Three years later the family moved to Longburn. Mr Wingate, who took up farming, was a keen Rugby footballer, and represented Manawatu for eight seasons. He married Miss Gertrude Grace Griggs, who, together with a family of six daugmeis and one son, survives him.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1940, Page 4
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