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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1941, Page 4

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The Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, and Lady Newall, arrived at Christchurch from Wellington on their first visit to the South Island. They were accorded a civic reception at which there were scenes of great enthusiasm. They toured the city and suburbs. In the evening they attended a performance of the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company. Yesterday their Excellencies attended morning service at the cathedral, and, in the afternoon, his Excellency laid the foundation stone of the new nurses’ home at St. George’s Hospital. This morning, his Excellency inspected the Royal New Zealand Air Force stations at Wigram and Harewood and this afternoon he will visit Burnham military camp. Their Excellencies will return to Wellington tonight. Mr. F. Clancy, who was admitted to the Masterton Hospital on Saturday, following a sudden illness while acting at clerk of the course at the Carterton Racing Club’s meeting, was reported on enquiry at the hospital this morning to be in a very satisfactory condition. The many friends in the Wairarapa of Flying Officer, V. G. W. Engstrom. R.A.F.. formerly of Masterton, will be pleased to learn that, following on a period of five months in an R.A.F. hospital in November last he was appointed a member of the Central Examination Board of the R.A.F. as navigation examiner.

A direct descendant of a line of seven ministers of the Church of England, all bearing the family name, Matthew Lewis Calder, younger son of the Rev. Jasper Calder, Auckland, was ordained yesterday as deacon in St. John’s Church, Te Awamutu, by Bishop Cherrington. The family line began in the seventeenth century and was extended to New Zealand in 1875 by the arrival of Mr. Calder’s grandfather, the late Ven. William Calder, who for a long period was Archdeacon of Auckland. Advice has been received by Mr. J. D. Ormond, Wallingford, that his fifth son, Pilot Officer Michael Ormond, aged 19, has been reported missing. Pilot Officer Ormond was educated at Hereworth School, . Havelock North, and Christ’s College, Christchurch, and two years ago went to England to study music. On the outbreak of war he joined the R.A.F. Fie was the fourth member of the family in the fighting forces, three brothers, John, Dan and Walcott, being with the Second N.Z.E. and all holding commissioned rank.