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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 May 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr J. Kisscll has been appointed assistant in the secondary department at the Pahiatua District High School. Mr George Hayne, of Masterton. has received word that his son. Gunner Harold Chesney Hayne. is reported missing.

Messrs H. J. Brass and A. E. Prentice, of Masterton, are in Wellington attending the annual conference of the New Zealand R.S.A. as Wairarapa delegates. The funeral of the late Mrs A. E. Hare, of Tinui, took place in Masterton yesterday afternoon. The Rev A. C. Lane officiated. Messrs J. Sinclair, J. O'Donoghue, E. Costello, J. Barnes, H. Chevison and'G. Mclsaacs were the pall-bearers. Mr F. W. Platts, C.M.G., a former Administrator of the Cook Islands, died in Hamilton on Saturday. He formerly practised law in Port Chalmers and in Dunedin. In 1917 he was appointed Administrator of the Cook Islands. After five years he was appointed stipendiary magistrate for the South Auckland district. A well-known Central Hawke's Bay farmer, Mr Arthur Robottom. Otane. has died in his sixty-fourth year. Mr Robottom was born at Clive, and after finishing his schooling spent the early days of his farming career as a shepherd. When the family property, “The Brow," was cut up. he took over the old homestead block, and in 1920 established the "Milbourne” Romney Marsh stud. The list of members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force posted missing yesterday included Private Geoffrey Sandford Cox, former New Zealand Rhodes Scholar. A Palmerston North boy by birth, he was educated in Geraldine, Dunedin, and Sydney. He attended Otago University, and there graduated in law and arts. Chosen a Rhodes Scholar he went to Oxford and later took up journalism, first with the "News Chronicle,” London. He was the paper's war correspondent with the Republican forces during part of the Spanish Civil War and published a book, "Defence of Madrid.” Later he joined the “Daily Express,” London, and represented that paper in Finland during the Russo-Finnish war. He then decided to get “in closer touch with the war game as it is played” and joined the New Zealand forces.