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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1941, Page 4

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Mr A. O. Jones, of Essex Street. Masterton. is attending the Anglican Synod in Wellington. The Hon. R. Semple, Minister of National Service, and the Hon. A. H. Nordmeyer, Minister of Health, will return from the South Island today. Mr James Hamilton, brother of the Hon. Adam Hamilton, died on Sunday. Mr J. Hamilton was the eldest member of the Hamilton family and had been in business in Takapuna, Auckland, for many years. The death has occurred of Sir Arthur Evans, Kt., D.Litt., Oxford Hon. LL.D., Edinburgh; Hon. D.Litt, Dublin; Hon. Ph.D., Berlin; F.R.S., the eminent archaeologist, a British Official Wireless message reports. He was a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, and Frazer Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Cambridge University, in 1931-2. The death occurred recently in Wellington of Mr Richard Os well Speed. Mr Speed was born in Warrnambool, Victoria, 67 years ago, and lived for 21 years on the West Coast. He was well known in goldmining circles there before going to Thailand (Siam) as dredgemaster for the Thai Tin Syndicate. He had just returned to New Zealand after an absence of 18 years. Among the Wellington men posted as missing is Sergeant H. J. S. Plimmer, formerly of the office staff of Messis Levin and Co., and a Son of Mr and Mrs Harcus Plimmer, of Wellington. Sergeant Plimmer, who is a relative of Major John Plimmer, a medical officer, who was killed in Crete, was stationed in Masterton some years ago as a member of Messrs Levin and Co.’s staff. Mr P. R. Angus, locomotive superintendent of the Railways Department in Wellington, has been appointed chief mechanical engineer, and in that capacity he.takes control of the railway workshops and locomotive running branches. He will be assisted by Mr H. W. Dallison, manager of the Addington workshops, who has been appointed workshops superintendent in Wellington.