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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1941, Page 4

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Mr Albert Clarke, who has been visiting Masterton. is returning to Australia this week.

Flight-Lieutenant A. B. Jury, who yas injured in an accident some weeks ago. is now able to resume his flying duties at Hobsonville Aerodrome.

Messrs H. J. Brass (president) and A. E. Prentice, (secretary) will represent the Wairarapa Returned Soldiers’ Association at the annual conference, to be held at Wellington on May 28. The death of Mr E. T. Spidy, Superintendent of the Hutt Railway Workshops, and Controller of Munitions, is reported in a Press Association message from Wellington. The death occurred in a Melbourne hospital recently of Mr Alfred Frith, comedian. Mr Frith, whose performances will be readily recalled by playgoers over the last quarter of a century, was a natural fun-maker, with a vacuous teethy laugh like a Cheshire cat, and .an expression created for mirth.

The recent death of Mr George B. Stephenson brought about the loss of one of the foremost social service workers of Wellington. Mr Stephenson spent his early life in Waipawa, Hawke's Bay, leaving the district in 1916 to render military service in the Great War. He then served for seven years on the staff of the Excelsior Supply Company, Wellington. During this period he qualified as a member of the Australasian Institute of Secretaries.

News that Mrs Robin Stuart French, wife of Major Stuart French, military secretary to the former Governor-Gen-eral of New Zealand, Viscount Galway, lost her life at sea, has been received by cablegram from Sydney. The ship in which Major and Mrs Stuart French were returning to Ireland was torpedoed the day before it was due at its destination. Mrs French was aboard a lifeboat which capsized. This news will arouse the sympathy of many people m New Zealand who knew Major Stuart French during his residence in the Dominion. The couple had only been married about eight months. Mrs Robin Stuart French was formerly Mrs Joy Denbigh Russell, elder daughter of Mr A. Allen-Jones and the late Mrs AllenJones. Angle Vale, South Australia.