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Mr W. H. P. Barber is to be nominated for life membership at the annual meeting of the Automobile Association (Wellington). At last night’s executive meeting the chairman, Mi E A. Batt, said that there were at present only two life members, Mr Claude Banks and Mr Ivan Wilson formerly of Featherston.
The appointment of Colonel W. H. Cunningham to command the Bth New Zealand Infantry Brigade Group, which is now in training, is announced in the Gazette. A lawyer by profession. Colonel Cunningham served m Egypt, Gallipoli and France during the last war. and was wounded on Gallipoli. He was mentioned four times in dispatches and was awarded the D.S.O.
A. lifetime of service in the interests of fire brigade work was brought to an end with the death at Hastings of Mr William Keith. Altogether Mr Keith had about 50 years' association with fire-fighting in Hastings, fie was president of the United Fire Brigades' Association. He leaves a wife, one son, Mr William Keith, and two daughters, Miss Theo Keith and Mrs D. Beck, wife of Constable Beck, late of Hastings, and now of Tinui.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1940, Page 4
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