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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1941, Page 4

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Fireman W. Clark, of the Masterton Fire Brigade is attending the Fire Brigades Conference, at Blenheim as the local brigade’s representative. Mr. R. G. May, chief postmaster in Auckland, will retire on Friday on Superannuation, after 40 years’ service in the Post and Telegraph Department. He will be succeeded by Mr. Charles Clark, chief postmaster in Hamilton. The following have been instructed to report to Levin as airman pilots: T. R. D. Kebbell, Eketahuna; V. J. Mildon. Masterton. Flight Rigger to report at Harewood: N. C. Churchhouse (Masterton). Radio mechanics to report at Harewood: C. J. Barnes (Masterton), T. H. Daniell (Masterton),

Captain Robert H. Bevan, who recently succeeded Captain H. E. Horan, D.S.C.. in command of H.M.S. Leander, is a gunnery specialist and has seen 36 years’ service in the Royal Navy. He is a brother of Wing Commander H. C. Bevan, military secretary to the Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall. Chosen as the National Party candidate, Mr. Maxwell S. Walker will contest the Auckland Suburbs seat at the coming general election. He unsuccessfully contested this seat in the 1938 election. At present it is held by the Attorney-General, Mr. Mason,. Mr. Walker is a barrister and solicitor in Auckland.

Mr. C. O. Bell, who is Crown representative for the No. 4 Armed Forces Appeal Board, has been granted leave of absence from the executive of the Soldiers’ Civil Re-establishment League. Mr. Bell was chairman of "the league, and Mr. W. H. Stevens has been appointed in his place. At the last meeting of the league eulogistic reference was made to Mr. Bell’s services, particular mention being made to the expansion of the work of the league while he was chairman.

Notified by the Federal Government on December- 15 that it no longer recognised him, M. Jean Tremoulet, former French Consul-General in Sydney, passed through Auckland by the Mariposa on his return to France. “You know the circumstances under which I left Australia, and I have nothing to say,” M. Tremoulet told an interviewer on the ship, and he gently but firmly closed his cabin door. Aged 49, M. Tremoulet has been in the French foreign service since 1918. He rose to become Consul-General for France in Barcelona in 1934, and was appointed to a similar post in Sydney in 1937.