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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1941, Page 4

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The Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister of Labour, is expected to return to Wellington tomorrow from the north. Mr J. S. Hoar, of the Mercantile Marine, is visiting Masterton. He is accompanied by Mr R. King, of Wellington. Dr. T. Z. Koo, travelling secretary of the World Student Christian Federation, who is touring the Dominion, returned to Wellington yesterday from the South Island. In a letter to friends in Masterton. Major Irvine Hart gives details of the fighting in the Mt. Olympus area in Greece, in which he was engaged in a rearguard action and other particulars relating to the evacuation. At the time of writing, May 10, he was in Egypt. Advice has been received- by Mr J. Caselberg, of Masterton, of the death in action in Greece of Sergeant A. M. Ziman, of Auckland, a. grandson of the late Mr Myer Caselberg. of Masterton. The late Sergt. Ziman, who left New Zealand with the Second Echelon, was unmarried. His father is a solicitor inAuckland and Sergt. Ziman was also a member of the same profession. Mr Thomas William Pilcher, a member of a well-known old Wellington family, died at his residence, Konini Street, Eastbourne, on Monday, after a long illness. Mr Pilcher was a son of the late Mr T. W. Pilcher (who arrived in Wellington from the Old Country in 1859 and was for many years associated with the development of the port), and was a brother of the late Mr E. G. Pilcher, who lived on Wellington Terrace for a quarter of a century. Mr T. W. Pilcher, who was 76 years of age. was born and educated in Wellington.