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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1940, Page 4

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The death has occurred of Dr. Maude Abbott, aged 72, an international authority on heart diseases, a cablegram from Montreal states.

The Rev P. C. Davis, vicar of All Saints’ Church, Birkenhead, will retire from the ministry at the end of this month. Mr Davis, who was ordained in 1912, has been vicar at Birkenhead since 1929. He was previously at Papatoetoe for 18 years, and also served at Northcote, Grey Lynn and Puketapu. Recent guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton, included Messrs E. H. Healey (Hastings), R. S. Knight, W. S. Curry. H. E. Allison (Palmerston North). G. C. Burton, G. Mitchell, H. Harris, A. M, O'Leary, E. Prosser, W. Neame, J. Clements, H. L. Hobman (Wellington), and L. Chamberlain. A former Collector of Customs at Wellington, ■ Mr Ernest Rudolph Brabazon, died suddenly at his residence, Kelburn, last Monday. He was born in Auckland in 1863. and was the third son of Mr Joseph Brabazon, Ireland, whoso great-grandfather was the younger son of the fifth Earl of Meath.

The death has occurred of Mr John Edward Howell, Rissington, in his seventy-third year. He was well known in Hawke’s Bay as a farmer, having spent all his life in the province. He was born in Puketapu, a son of Mr and Mrs John Howell, pioneers of the district. For some years he carried on business as a contracting farmer and also did carrying. The advent of the motor-lorry was responsible for Mr Howell giving up his business and for the past 10 years he lived more or less in retirement at Rissington, occupying a small dairy farm. The death has occurred in Auckland of Mr Alexander Brown Wilson, who had been associated with the printing business for many years. He was born at Kilmarnock, Scotland, in 1871, and came with his parents in the ship Auckland in 1876 to Port Chalmers, the family later moving to Wellington. As a young man. Mr Wilson was apprenticed to the bookbinding trade with Lyon and Blair. Wellington. For the last 20 years Mr Wilson had been on the directorate of Leightons Ltd., Auckland, and in charge of their manufacturing department.