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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1941, Page 4

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The Hon. P. C. Webb. Minister of Labour, left Wellington last night for Christchurch. The Hon. A. Hamilton, member of the War Cabinet, left Wellington last night for the south.

The Hon. W. E. Parry. Minister of Internal Affairs, left Wellington for Auckland by the Limited express last night. Mr D. C. Kidd, member of Parliament for Waitaki. who was recently operated on for peritonitis at the Christchurch Public Hospital, is making a rapid recovery, and is able to leave his bed for a short time each day. The Hon. F. Jones. Minister of Defence. will visit Wanganui today. He inspected the territorial units in camp there this morning, and this afternoon he will represent the Government at the Labour Party picnic. The Minister will return to Wellington this evening. The following Wairarapa recruits have been instructed to report to the Royal New Zealand Air Force station' at Levin for preliminary training:! Pilots, F. R. S. Gillions. Masterton: J.I P. Manley Carterton: W. G. Mygind,' Pahiatua. Gunners R. H. Brisco and J. A. Brown, of Masterton. have been reclassified io observers.

Mr Campbell Colquhoun, well known , in Wellington as a clerk of works, died 1 recently at his home in Lower Hutt, He was born on the site of Te Aro House ’.now Selfridge's), in Cuba Street, 74 years ago, Cuba Street at that time being almost wholly residential. Mr Colquhoun was a carpenter and buildcd, and worked for a quarter of a century on various jobs in Wellington. After that he became clerk of works ’ for Crichton and McKay, Wellington ’ architects, and acted in that capacity on many buildings in the city. Mr Colquhoun leaves a widow and one daugh-j ter. Miss Mollie Colquhoun. The Minister of Supply. Mr Sullivan.j left Wellington last night for the South! Island. The Minister, who will bo ab- ! sent from Wellington for over a week. • will spend today in Christchurch, where ; he will discuss with the Wheat Controller the position of labour for wheat farmers. The Minister of Labour, Mr Webb, will also participate in this dis-| mission. Mr Sullivan will proceed to! Dunedin tomorrow, and on Monday and Tuesday he will inspect a number of: secondary industries in that city. Late;

on Tuesday afternoon ho will leave fm Invercargill, and on Wednesday he will inspect some of the manufacturing enterprises there, as well as the linen flax factories in Otautau and Winton. He will return to Dunedin on Tuesday I evening, and to Christchurch the folI lowing day. The Minister expects to return to Wellington tomorrow week. The death is reported from Melbourne of Mrs. Rebecca Tabor, formerl.v of Masterton. Mrs. Tabor was born in Melbourne some 80 years ago, and ; came to New Zealand with her lute husband when she was a yotfhg woman. For some years Mr. Tabor was the licensee of the City Hotel in Wellington. After Mr. Tabor’s death Mrs. Tabor went to New Plymouth and became proprietress of the White Hart Hotel. She also was licensee of the Terminus Hotel in the same town. Mrs. Tabor constributed £12,000 for the building of a children's ward* for the: New Plymouth Hospital, as a memorial: to her son, the late Mr. George Tabor. | The late Mrs. Tabor was many-years; ago. proprietress of the Prince of Wales! Hotel, in Masterton. during which period her only son, Mr. George Tabor, | married the only lady passenger to sur-j vivo the wreck of S.S. Elingamite off j Three Kings. Auckland, she having aj terrifying experience on a waterloss' and foodless raft for many days.