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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1940, Page 4

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A farewell is to be tendered to their Excellencies Lord and Lady Galway in the Wellington Town Hall on November 28.

The Hon. W. Nash, Minister of Finance, left Wellington today for Hawke’s Bay.

The Hop. F. Jones, Minister of Defence, will return to Wellington today from the South Island. The Hon. H. T. Armstrong. Minister of Health, left Wellington last night for the South Island.

The Rt. Rev. H. St. Barbe Holland, Bishop of Wellington, has been appointed vice-president of the New Zealand Association of Public Schools of Great Britain.

The funeral of the late Mrs Ada Johnston took place in Masterton yesterday. The services were conducted by the Ven. Archdeacon E. J. Rich. Tiie pall-bearers were Messrs J. West, W. Parker, H. West, and W. Edward. Many flora! tributes were received. Mr. D. C. Cameron, deputy-mayor for the past three years, and a member of the Dunedin city council for six years, will be a candidate for the Dunedin mayoralty at the next elections. At the present time he is chairman of the Dunedin Manpower Committee.

Mr J. C. D. Mackley, secretary of the Wellington District branch of the New Zealand Institute of County Clerks, and Masterton County Clerk, was at a meeting of the Masterton County Council today, appointed to attend the annual Institute Conference to be held at Palmerston North, on November 28, 1940.

The funeral of the late Mr George Power took place in Masterton yesterday afternoon when there was a large and representative attendance. The services were conducted by the Ven. Archdeacon E. J. Rich. A large number of wreaths were received. The' pallbearers were Messrs L. Walker, W. Hurbert, L. Walker, K. Stewart and C. Taylor.'

Mr. V. C. Jones, Y.M.C.A. representative with the first echelon, who has taken up an appointment as staff captain in charge of the welfare work of the British command in Egypt, has resigned his position as general secretary of the Wellington Y.M.C.A. The association’s board of directors has accepted his resignation with regret and congratulated him on his new appointment.

The death occurred on Saturday of Mr. Alfred Ison Masters, Miramar, a well-known resident of Wellington. Mr. Masters, who was 87 years of age, was born and educated at Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, England, and arrived at Wellington in 1873. For some time Mr. Masters was employed on the staff of the Wellington Club, on The Terrace, and at Bellamy’s. Later he became manager and secretary of the Central Club, when it had premises in Grey Street, adjoining the present National Bank of New Zealand. For two years he acted as librarian when the Athenaeum was first opened as a public library. At the beginning of the century he became the licensee of the Caledonian Hotel, Adelaide Road. Injuries which he received when he fell down a flight of stairs caused the death of Mr. John Anderson Miller, aged 71, a well-known Hastings resident and a former administrator on many local bodies of the district. Mr Miller was elected to the Hastings Borough Council in 1908 and was. mayor from 1909 to 1911. Mr. Miller was instrumental in forming the Hastings Fire Board, of which he was chairman for some time. He was a member of the Napier Hospital Board, the Park Island Committee, the Hawke’s Bay Education Board, and the Napier Harbour Board, chairman of the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board, president of the Hastings Chamber of Commerce, and president of the Hawke’s Bay Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ L T nion.

News has been received of the death in England of the Rev. Mackenzie Gibson, who served for many years in the diocese of Christchurch and as a chaplain to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the last war, says a Press Association telegram from Auckland. Mr. Gibson, who was aged 81 years, was born in Bristol and came to New Zealand in 1881. He was ordained deacon in 1884 and priest the following year and between 1886 and 1915 he held a number of cures in the South Island. He was appointed a chaplain in May, 1915, and was attached to the No. 2 General Hospital in Egypt. He served in hospitals in Brokenhurst, Hornchurch and Walton-on-Thames till July, 1919. Taking his discharge in England, Mr. Gibson was appointed to a curacy at Esher, Surrey, which he held till his retirement in 1934. He is survived by his soil, Mr. Noel Gibson, headmaster of Dilworth School, Auckland.