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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 June 1941, Page 4

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Their Excellencies the Governor-Gen-eral and Lady Newall will resume residence at Government House, Wellington. tomorrow evening, after having paid official visits to Gisborne and Napier. General Nuri Es-Said has been appointed Iraqui Minister to Cairo, a Bagdad message states. Mr J. S. Jessep, Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay, has been reappointed a member of the Board of Native Affairs, according to a notice in the latest Gazelle. The death has occurred in Auckland of Mr Archibald Whyte Christie, for 27 years a widely-known officer of the Agriculture Department in the Auckland Province. Advice was received by his wife in Auckland yesterday that Major John Hiddlestone, senior chaplain of the Combined Baptist. Church of Christ and Congregational denominations with the New Zealand Forces, is reported missing, and is believed to be a prisoner of war.

The first woman in New Zealand to graduate bachelor of agricultural science. Miss Elsie Gertrude Thorpe, aged 22, Nelson, received her degree at the Massey Agricultural College graduation ceremony on Thursday. Miss Thorpe is a daughter of the Rev and the late Mrs J. H. Thorpe. She intends doing research work in connection with the meat and wool industries.

One of Brooklyn’s oldest residents, Mr Knox Homan Smith, died recently. He was born at Gracefield, Northern Ireland, and was the son of a Belfast schoolmaster. After a few years’ residence in Australia, Mr Smith arrived in New Zealand with the late Mrs Smith and three children 39 years ago. He took up his residence in Brooklyn over 30 years ago, and carried on business in that suburb till his death.