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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1940, Page 6

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Mr W. R. Bazeley and Mr A. M. Doull have been appointed president pnd vice-president respectively of the North Island Grain, Seed and Produce Merchants’ Association. The Rev B. H. Williams, who has been curate of the Rangiora parish for the past three years, has accepted the position of Travelling Representative of the Inter-University Fellowship of Evangelical Unions. Mr Phillip Chetwode Watt, a wellknown Wellington builder and contractor, who had been ailing for some months past, died on Monday evening at his home at Glenside. Mr Watt, who was 64 years of age, was born in Advie, Banffshire, Scotland. Dr Howard Coverdale has been promoted to the rank of major in the New Zealand Medical Corps and will join the Third General Hospital. He has been appointed ophthalmologist to the New Zealand Forces in the Middle East. In the last war Major Coverdale served for a short period, as a junior officer in the Royal Air Force. Changes in division commands of the Salvation Army throughout the Dominion are announced. Brigadier, A. Suter, who was spent nearly five years in Auckland, has been appointed to join the headquarters staff in Wellington, and Major J. Nelson, Wei-' lington, will take Brigadier Suter’s place in Auckland. Major Nelson has spent 15 years in China, and his assistant will be Major W. Smith, recently field secretary in Korea, who has been transferred to New Zealand because of the disturbed conditions in that country. The present assistant in Auckland, Major A. Chandler, will take up a similar position in Wellington. Other appointments in the North Island are: Brigadier C. Gray, Wellington divisional commander; Major A. Hildreth, manager of Wellington People’s Palace; Brigadier F. Caporn. territorial auditor.