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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1940, Page 4

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The Governor-General. Lord Galway, arrived at Auckland by the Limited express yesterday. He later inspected third echelon units in training at Papakura Camp. He left last night for the south.

The Hon D. G. Sullivan. Minister of Supply, is visiting Auckland. Mr R. H. Williams, secretary of the Masterton A. & P. Association, is visiting the South Island.

The Hon W. E. Parry. Minister of Internal Affairs, has returned to Wellington from a visit to Taranaki. Mr Hector Bywater, naval correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” is dead, a London cablegram reports.

The Hon R. Semple, Minister of Natoinal Service, will return to Wellington from the South Island on Thursday.

The Hon W. Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, returned to Wellington yesterday from a visit to the Auckland district.

The Rt Hon J. G. Coates, Minister without portfolio, arrived at Wellington by the Limited express from Auckland yesterday. Mr H. A. Foy. assistant inspector of dairy produce to the New Zealand Government in London, will shortly return to the Dominion.

Mr D. P. Hay, Wellington, a son of

Mr and Mrs A. C. P. Hay, Alfredton, and an Old Boy of Wairarapa High School, will enter camp shortly with an Artillery Unit, for overseas service. Mr E. Buckton, son of Mr and Mrs J. Buckton, of Masterton, has been appointed business secretary at the Camp at Ohiyesa, Holly, Michigan (U.S.A.), held under the auspices of the Detroit Y.M.C.A.

Messrs J. Puohy (Hastings), E. G. Melton, George Westbrook (Palmerston North), Vickers, A. W. Foote, McMenamin, V. Gledhill, H. Dawson. J. L. Picton (Wellington), H. C. Trass (Trentham) were guests recently at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton. The Rev Lionel B. Fletcher will shortly leave 'England for New Zealand and Australia to arrange evangelistic campaigns in the chief centres and military camps, Mr Fletcher was formerly minister at the Beresford Street Congregational Church, Auckland.

The following management commit-

tee was elected at the annual meeting of St David’s Church, Woodville: Messrs G. Banks, W. Curry, C. Forbes, A. Fraser, R. Hutchins, I. Hutchinson, R. D. L. Irwin, J. Mitchell, J. Oxenham, T. A. B. Sinclair, F. Williams and H. Smalley.

The death has occurred of Mr Walter P. Chrysler from cerebral haemorrhage, a New York cablegram reports. Mr Chrysler was chairman of the board of directors of the Chrysler Corporation and a director of many other important corporations, and his death ends a remarkable career which he started as a machinist’s apprentice. He was 65 years of age. Lieutenant-Colonel H. E. Avery, Wel-

lington, assistant general manager and secretary of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition Company, has been appointed to a position at Army Headquarters. He is attached to the Quar-termaster-General, Colonel P. H. Bell. Colonel Avery has had a distinguished military career, serving as a staff officer in the Great War and subsequently holding the position of QuartermasterGeneral of the New Zealand Forces. Colonel Avery left the Exhibition Company a week ago to take up his new duties. The death has occurred at Havelock North of Mr Robert John Bell, a wellknown farmer who owned several large blocks of land in the North and South Islands. He was aged 80, and was born on board the ship conveying his Scottish parents from England to Australia. After a few years in Queensland his people came to New Zealand, taking up land in Nelson and later in Marlborough. It was in the latter district that Mr Bell spent most of his life. Taking up the land on his father’s death he secured land in other

parts of the Dominion, including North Auckland and Hawke’s Bay. Mr Bell at various times was president of the Marlborough Agricultural and Pastoral Society and chairman of the Marlborough County Council. He went to Hawke’s Bay in 1923, living in retirement.