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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 August 1940, Page 4

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Captain D. Kee who has been on loan to the New Zealand Church Army since 1935, left Auckland for England by the Mariposa yesterday. The resignation of the secretary, Mr E. M. Bardsley. from the Wellington Provincial Patriotic Council, and the Wellington Provincial Centennial Council, was accepted by those bodies at meetings yesterday afternoon. At the annual meeting of the Dannevirke Rotary Club, Mr H. M. Tatere was elected president. Other officers elected were:—Vice-president, Mr H. Young; directors, Messrs W. Welsh, E. Westlake, F. Allardice and G. J. Goldsman; secretary, Mr L. Smith; treasurer, Mr A. Soundy. Word has been received from Captain I. Hart, of Masterton, who is at present with, the New Zealand forces in England, that he is in good health and with others has been officially shown over interesting institutions in London, including Parliament Buildings.

At the Prince of Wales Hotel. Masterton, yesterday, the following were guests:—Sec. Lieut. C. M. Monckton (Trentham), Messrs C. Knowles (Auckland), M. W. Booker, R. McKay (Waipawa), W. Carline (Dannevirke), E. Mullen (Lower Hutt), and F. W. Greenwood i(Palmerston North). Mr D. I. MacDonald, who has been appointed general secretary of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, was born in 1904 and educated at Timaru Boys’ High School and Canterbury University, where he graduated as Master of Commerce in 1929. He is also a fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Secretaries.

The fact Mr D. M. Douglas’s election to the committee of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Chib probably created a Dominion. record was mentioned by the president, Mr G. D. Beatson, at the annual meeting. Mr Douglas represented the third generation of his family to have held office as a member of the club.

The death occurred yesterday of Mr John Anstey, in his eighty-fifth year, states a Press Association message from Timaru. Born in Devon, Mr Anstey came to New Zealand in 1878, settling in South Canterbury, where he took up farming. In 1905 he was appointed member of the Royal Lands Commission, and as a result of this work was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1907, being a member till 1916, when; reversing the usual procedure, he entered the House of Representatives as member for Waitaki. and served five years. He was a member of the Timaru Borough Council, a foundation member of the South Canterbury Power Board, a member of the Chamber of Commerce for 20 years, and a director of the Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association for 30 years. The death of the Rev Cyril Herbert Harvey, who was temporarily in charge of St Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Wellington, early in 1914, and later in that year vicar of Wadestown, occurred in England on July 7. He had been vicar of Wombourne, near Wolverhampton, since 1937. Mr Harvey in 1912 came to New Zealand, taking up the appointment of curate at Christ Church, Wanganui. He remained there till he was invited to take charge of St Paul’s Pro-Cathedral. Wellington, early in 1914 during the absence in England of the vicar, the late Archdeacon Johnson, formerly of Masterton. Late in the same year he went to the parish of Wadestown as vicar, remaining there till he went overseas in 1917 as chaplain to the forces. After the war he settled in England, subsequently becoming vicar of St Paul’s, Huddersfield.