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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1940, Page 4

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The Hon. D. G. McMillan, Minister of Marine, left Wellington last night for Rotorua. A London cablegram, reports the death of Admiral H. W. Parker, at the age of 65 years. He commanded H.M.S. Repulse on her Empire cruise in 1924 and was posted to the retired list in 1934. Mr C. M. Turrell, Wellington, has been appointed a member of the board of trustees of the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum. He is the representative of the Wellington Harbour Board. Mr T. F. Chambers, who for 41 years has been a member of the staff of the Sumner School' for the Deaf, was given farewell presentations by the teaching, house, ground staffs, and pupils, on his retirement from the directorship of the school. The Assembly Hall. Brougham Street, Wellington, was filled to its capacity recently, the occasion being the presentation of a well filled wallet to the Very Rev. Dr. Mcßae, who recently retired from his position of administrator of St. Joseph's parish. Wellington, after 13 years' service, in order to give his undivided attention to his archdiqcesan duties as chancellor and secretary to his Grace Archbishop O'Shea. Probably the earliest form of wheeled transport between Wellington anc. Karori was bullock wagon. Among those present at the official opening oi the western access tramway short-cut in Wellington yesterday afternoon. was one who, as a boy of five years of age. was taken to Karori by bullock wagon, and remembers the occasion as a gay adventure to this day. He is Mr Edward Thomas Benge, now 81 years of age. The death has occurred of Mr Matthew Henry Roe. who was born in Auckland 94 years ago. After being educated in Australia. Mr Roe was for some years in charge of the clerical staff of a timber mill at Cornwallis. owned by his father. Later he took up farming in the Pahiatua district. On his retirement he lived in a houseboat on the Manukau Harbour for about 20 years, but in 1930 went to reside in Ponsonby. Mr Roe had excellent health all his life, and when a young man was a keen cricketer. He had never married.