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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1941, Page 4

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The Hon. R. Semple, Minister of National Service, left Wellington for Auckland yesterday afternoon. The Hon. H. G. R. Mason. AttorneyGeneral, left Wellington for Auckland by the Limited express last night. The Hon. F. Jones, Minister of Defence, returned to Wellington from the South Island this morning. The Hon. W. E. Parry. Minister of Internal Affairs, left Wellington by the Limited express for Auckland last evening. The Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, Prime Minister, left Wellington for Auckland today. He expects to return to Wellington on Monday. The Rev. J. T. Holland, former Vicar of Featherston, who has been at Waiouru Military Camp, will leave with the Sixth Reinforcements as padre. Mr L. Jago, Napier, and formerly of Masterton, who has retired after 41 years’ service in the Post and Telegraph Department, was this week bade farewell by his fellow officers, who made his a presentation. To avoid vote-splitting, Mr T. C. A. Hislop and Mr M. F. Luckie agreed to submit their names to arbitration for a decision as to wiio should contest the mayoralty of Wellington at the forthcoming local elections. Mr Hislop was chosen, and Mr Luckie therefore retires from the mayoral contest, but is a candidate for the city council. Mr Hislop, the sitting mayor, had already been selected by the citizens’ committee as their candidate. The death has occurred of Mr Frederick Nelson Walls, of Foxion. Mr Walls was born in Foxton in 1883. He was engaged in flaxmilling work all his life? He took a keen interest in sport and was a member of the Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club at the time of his death. He is survived by his wife, one son. Signalman A. Walls, of the Foxton camp, and two daughters. Miss F. Walls (Wellington) and Mrs B. O'Rourke (Foxton). Virginia Woolf, one of the outstanding contemporary English novelists, has died at the age of 59, a London cablegram states. Daughter of the late Sir Leslie Stephen and related to half a dozen famous literary families, her high reputation in literary circles as an essayist and. critic were recognised by wide sections of the reading public. With her husband, Leonard Woolf, she founded the Hogarth Press, which published some of the most noteworthy works of the nineteen twenties and thirties, including those of Katherine Mansfield. The council of Victoria University College. Wellington, has appointed Dr. A. E. C. Hare, of Swansea University College, to be Voider Research Fellow in Social Relations in Industry. This fellowship has ben endowed through the munificence of Mr. Henry Valder of Hamilton, whose interest in the objects of the fellowship is well known throughout New Zealand. Dr. Hare, who has been appointed from 16 candidates. has done much work along similar lines in England. In 1929 he was attached as research assistant to the staff of the New Survey of London Life and Labour, and in 1934 he was appointed Statistical Officer to the Royal Commission on Radium Treatment of Cancer, a position he held for four years.