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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 July 1940, Page 4

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Mr C. L. Mac Diarmid has been reelected chairman of the Hamilton High School Board of Governors for the twenty-first term.

Mr L. J. Sutton, formerly of Palmerston North, has taken up an appointment in Masterton -with Wairarapa Radios.

Mr E. Casey, General Manager of Railways, has been appointed director of railways in the military forces, with the honorary rank of colonel. Mr A. C. Taylor, of the Bank of New South Wales, Wellington, and formerly of Masterton, has been transferred to Tokomaru Bay, and left for that place yesterday. Constable D. Beck, of Cambridge, arrived in Masterton this morning. He is to take charge of the Tinui Police Station, as Constable Bacon, officer in charge, has been transferred to Wellington.

Mr W. B. Fitchett, a member of the Wellington Colleges .Board of Governors, went into camp yesterday and will be a company commander in the reinforcements. In the last wai he went away in the Main Body and served in Egypt, Gallipoli and France. One of the pioneers of the lightering service at the port of Wanganui, Captain D. Connor, who paid his first visit to Wanganui as a member of the schooner Cobra about the year 1869, celebrated his 91st birthday yesterday.

Dr John Barron. M. 8., F.R.C.S., son of Mr and Mrs W. N. Barron, Havelock North, has been appointed assistant to Sir Harold Gillies, the noted plastic surgeon, according to cabled advice received from London by Mr and Mrs Barron.

The following are guests today at the Hotel Midland:—Messrs R. Carty (Nelson), W. Leatham (Napier). C. Lee. E. R. Tabart. J. Knight (Palmerston North), J. Miller. J. Gillies, G. Young. R. J. Wiles, P. Lyster, J. Phillips, E. G. Edey, B. Kiely (Wellington).