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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1941, Page 4

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Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and Lady Newalb will leave Wellington by the inter-island express steamer this evening to pay their first official visit to Christchurch. Their Excellencies will return to Wellington on Tuesday morning. The Hon. F. Jones, Minister of Defence, is expected to return to Wellington today from the South Island. Mr. C. L. Hunter has been appointeed a conciliation commissioner as from March 1.

Mr. Noel C. Churchhouse left yesterday to take up duties as a Flight Rigger at the Royal New Zealand Air Force station at Harewood. Mr G. T. O'Hara Smith, Town Clerk, has returned to Masterton after attending the conference of the Town Clerks’ Institute at Auckland. The Hon. W. E. Barnard, Speaker of the House of Representatives, has been gazetted a second lieutenant and posted to the Second Battalion. Hawke’s Bay Regiment. Mr. R. L. Andrew, F.1.C., Wellington, has been appointed Dominion Analyst and Director of the Dominion Laboratory. He succeeds Mr. W. Donovan, who has retired. Mr. Lachlan James Gray, an Invercargill architect, has won the travelling scholarship in architecture of the University of New Zealand. Mr. Gray who is 24 years old, is the son of Mr. Lachlan Gray, building contractor, Invercargill.

In recognition of his valuable membership of St. Matthew’s ■ Choir for a number of years, members gathered to make a presentation to Gunner G. V. Greer, of the Fifth Reinforcements. Archdeacon E. J. Rich, in making the presentation, said Mr. Greer would be greatly missed as one of the choir’s most prominent members. Cabled advice that her son, Flying Officer Eric Neil Baker, R.A.F., is now a prisoner of war in Germany, has been received by Mrs. C. S. Baker, 31 Simla Crescent, Khandallah, Wellington, from the International Red Cross. Flying Officer Baker who is attached to the Army Co-operation Command in England, was previously reported missing as a result of air operations on February 18.

The funeral of the late Mrs E. Winhall, which took place in. Masterton yesterday was largely attended. Services were conducted by the Ven. Archdeacon E. J. Rich, assisted by the Rev. V. W. Joblin. The pall-bearers were Messrs P. F. Fagan, W. L. Marchbank, J. F. Donnelly, W. J. Rutherford, H. J. Jones and H. J. Fairchild. Among the floral tributes received were wreaths from the Garage Proprietors’ Association and the staff, and the P. and T. Department.

The death has occurred of Mr. Charles Henry Dement, Wellington. Mr. Dement was born in Adelaide on February 21, 1854, and a year later he came to New Zealand with his parents, who settled in Nelson. Mr. Dement was educated in Nelson, where he married in 1880. In 1887 he moved to Wellington, where he engaged in business as a building contractor. Mr. Dement took an active interest in social welfare work. For 43 years he was chairman of the New Zealand Friendly Societies’ Mutual Fidelity Guarantee Association and a member of the Aorangi Oddfellows’ Lodge. He was also a keen Freemason, being a foundation member and Deputy Master of Lodge Whetu Kairangi; a member of Lodge Mokoia and a member of the Russell and Waterloo Royal Arch Chapter Lodges.