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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1941, Page 4

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Mr E. F. Carpenter, Assistant Chief Inspector in the Aeronautical Inspection Division of the Ail- Department, has been appointed to the Royal New Zealand Air Force as Senior Aeronautical Inspector. The minister of St. John's Presbyterian Church, the Rev. P. Gladstone Hughes, was elected president of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand League of Nations Union at the annual meeting of the branch last night. Mr T. W. Graham, the well known missionary passed through Masterton yesterday, going .north from Wellington. where he has been issued a passport for Fiji, to take up missionary work among the thousands of Indians on these islands.

The two Netherlands Ministers, the Hon. E. N. van Kieffens, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Hon. Ch. J. I. M. Welter, Minister of the Colonies, are expected to be in New Zealand next week. They are to be entertained at a luncheon at Parliament House. Wellington, on Tuesday. Mr S. G. Holland, Leader of the Opposition, arrived in Wellington from the South Island this' morning. He and Mr T. G. Wilkes, General Secretary of the National Party, left later for Wanganui where they attended the funeral of the late Mrs W. J. Polson.

There was a large attendance at the Riverside Golf Club’s clubhouse last night, when members gathered to entertain Lieutenant D. Wellington, a popular member of the club. Mr B. Carstens presided. Items were given by Messrs O. Hemmingsen. B. Carstens. S. Herbert. R. Leathern. G. Murdoch and C. Minifie. Guests of the evening included Privates W. Osborne. W. Richards and E. Button. A lengthy toast lisi was honoured. The toast to Lieut. Wellington was proposed by Mr H. Keisenberg. Lieutenant Wellington suitably replied. The Pahiatua branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union has elected the following officers for the ensuing year:--President. Mr J. IL Bremner: vice-presidents. Messrs J. R. Gardiner. W. W. Day. T. J. Cotter: executive committee, the same as last year: emergency committee. Messrs T. J. Colter. W. W.’ Day. J. R. Gardiner. G. H. Brown; delegates to the Wairarapa Provincial Executive, the president, vice-presidents, and Mr H. Cotter; in-ter-provincial conference delegates. Messrs J. H. Bremner. H. Colter and C. H. Wilton; auditor. Mr J. D. C. Crewe: representative on Horne Guard committee. Mr C. H. Wilton.