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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1940, Page 4

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The Hon R. Semple. Minister of Public Works, left Wellington yesterday for the Bay of Plenty district. Mr A. Young, of Masterton, has returned home after having undergone a successful operation in a hospital in Wellington. Mr F. T. Woodby, headmaster of the Nuhaka Native School for the past nine years, has been promoted to be inspector of Native Schools. Constable A. W. Nalder, of Lower Hutt, is to succeed Sergeant C. H. Reardon (transferred to Wellington) at Masterton. He is to arrive in Masterton on Thursday. The Prime Minister, the Rt Hon P Fraser, who has been confined to hir home in Northland since Thursday with an attack of influenza, resumed his official duties at Parliament House yesterday. The death has occurred at Auckland in his 86th year of Captain T. H. Richards well known in Auckland shipping circles, Captain Richards was employed by the Northern Steamship Company for more than 40 years, being master of several of the company’s steamer.;, including the Rimu. It is officially announced that Pilot Officer Alan Carthew Race, of the Royal Air Force, who was previously reported to have been seriously injured on active service in June, is now removed from the seriously ill list. His father is the Rev W. Rowe, Nelson. Dr C. E. Hercus, dean of the medical faculty of the University of Otago, has been selected to deliver the Wilding Memorial lecture, which was established in memory of the late Anthony Wilding and his sister Gladys. Dr Hercus will deliver the lecture in Christchurch on “Women and National Survival.” One of the oldest residents of the Tawa Flat district, Mr Stephen William Mexted, died recently at the age of 81. He was born in Tawa Flat and farmed there all his life. Mr Mexted was of a retiring disposition, which, together with poor health, kept him out of public life, though about 50 years ago, as chairman of the committee, he took a keen interest in the welfare of the Takapu School, no longer in existence. On Saturday the death occurred of Mr Harry Thomas, Brooklyn. Wellington. a former well-known member of the Wellington City Council staff. He was 81 years of age. a native of Adelaide, South Australia, and came to New Zealand late in the last century. For some years he was a member of the clerical staff of Bing, Harris and Co., Wellington, and entered the service of the city council in 1903. as a clerk in the town clerk's department. He retired in June 1929. Ar one time Mr Thomas was secretary of the Federal Club, Willis Street. The Rev Ivo E. Bertram. M.A., a retired Presbyterian minister who gave notable service to his Church in both the North and South Islands, as well as for years in Melbourne and Sydney, died in Auckland on Saturday, aged 69. Mr Bertram laboured for many years in Devonport and from 1915 to 1923 in Australia, first in Melbourne and then in Sydney. Returning to New Zealand in 1924 he became minister of St Paul’s Church. Oamaru. and it was while there that he suffered a serious road accident that undermined his health and icd to his resignation in 1928. His ministry was resumed in Auckland, but illness rendered it imperative for him to retire from active work in 1936.