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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 June 1940, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr T. S. Slinn has been elected deputy superintendent of the Lower Hutt Fire Brigade.

Messrs D. A. Stout, H. Pearce, R. M. McLean, E, W. Ford (Wellington) were recent guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton.

Major-General J. E. Duigan, Chief of the General Staff, is suffering from a slight attack of influenza and will be confined to his home for some days.

Mr J. C. B. Taylor has been elected president of the Canterbury University College Students’ Union, vice Mr J. M. Steeds, who has joined the Air Force.

Advice was received yesterday that Pilot Officer Robert Clifford Douglas McKenzie is reported missing. His next-of-kin is Mr S. J. Moore, Fendalton, Christchurch. The Hon P. Fraser, Prime Minister, visited Palmerston North today to open the Manawatu Winter Show. He will return to Wellington in time to attend a caucus tonight of members of the Parliamentary Labour Party. The medical superintendent of the Auckland Hospital, Dr J. W. Craven, has received instructions from the War Office, London, to report overseas for service with the Royal Army Medical Corps. Dr Craven, who has the rank of lieutenant colonel, was granted extended leave of absence by the hospital board last night. He expects to leave New Zealand early next month. Dr Craven, who has been superintendent at the Hospital since 1932, has a distinguished Great War record. Major C. W. A. Kimbell, F.R.C.S., M. formerly of Lower Hutt, is reported missing and is believed to be a prisoner of war. Major Kimbell, who is a son of the late A. N. Kimbell, Under-Secretary for Public Works, has been serving in France with the R.A.M.C., and whs in the operations at Dunkirk. A brother, Pilot Officer N. M. Kimbell, also a doctor, is serving in England with the Royal Air Force. The news was received by Mr Eric Kimbell, of Wellington, from his mother, who is now resident in London.