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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1940, Page 4

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* The Rev. T. V. Pearson left Masterton today for Wadestown, where he will be acting vicar for three months during the absence of the vicar on military duties. Mr Vernon J. Leek, D.8.E.A., president of the Wellington Esperanto Club, has been appointed by the New Zealand Esperanto Association, for the second period of three years, as the leading delegate in New Zealand of the International Esperanto League, whose headquarters are in London. Dr Raymond Firth, a New Zealander who holds the post of Reader in Anthropology in the University of London, has recently completed a research, in collaboration with his wife, among a peasant fishing people in Kelantan. Unfederated Malay States. At the end of his present holiday in New Zealand, he will return to London. A well-known Wellington business man, Mr Walter Johnston, died in a private hospital on Saturday, aged 67. He was chairman of directors of the firm of Johnston and Co., Ltd., Featherston Street, Wellington. Mr Johnston spent practically the whole of his life in the Wellington district. He was the second son of the late the Hon Walter Woods Johnston, Highden, Awahuri, in the Manawatu district, and was educated in England, first attending Stoneyhurst College, and later completing his studies at Wadham College, Oxford. When he returned to New Zealand, Mr Johnston entered business in Wellington and for many years lived in the Hutt Valley. He was married in Wellington to Miss Alicia Maud Coleridge, a grand-daughter of the late Mr W. T. L. Travers, formerly of Wellington. Mr Johnston is survived by his wife and his son, Mr Goring Coleridge Johnston. Wellington.