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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1940, Page 4

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The Hon Vincent Ward has been appointed secretary of the Wellington Provincial Patriotic Council. Mr Frederick Herbert Lovegrove, of Pirinoa, has been appointed a Justice of the Peace. The Hon H. G. R. Mason. AttorneyGeneral. left Wellington for Auckland by the Limited express last night. He expects to return to Wellington at the weekend. The Rev. E. P. Blamires, Auckland, who has supplied a church at Alton, Hampshire, for nearly a year, has been transferred temporarily to the British Methodist Conference, and appointed to the Sheringham Circuit, Norfolk. The following were guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton, yesterday and today:—Messrs R. S. Knight, R. Blinkhorne (Palmerston North), C. A. Baggett, W. Waters, Vickers. Sim (Wellington), I. A. Hansen (Eketahuna), Burt. Word has been received of the sudden death in Dunedin of Mr A. R. Munn, who was well known in business circles there. He was born in Dunedin 52 years ago and is survived by a widow, his mother, who is in her 90th year, and one sister, Mrs H. M. Morton, of Lansdowne. The sympathy of a wide circle of friends will bo extended to the relatives in their bereavement. The death has occured of Mr Henry Jarratt Gilberd, of Henderson. Auckland, aged 87. Mr Gilberd. who was born in Auckland, was educated at Wesley College and began work on the “New Zealand Herald.” Some years later he established a nurseryman’s business at Taradale, Hawke's Bay. He then invented a power-boring machine which he used in boring for water throughout the North Island. About 40 years ago Mr Gilberd settled in Henderson.