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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1941, Page 4

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Adjutant P. Stevenson, of Waimate. is paying a short visit to Masterton. Mr W. O. Cave, of Tupurupuru, has received private advice from England that his nephew, Lance Sergeant T. H. Vallis, of Masterton, is a prisoner of war in Germany. Mr A. Dickson, who recently retired from active association with racing, was elected a life member of the South Canterbury Jockey Club at the annual meeting. Mr L. G. Michaels, of Auckland, has been appointed manager of the Regent Theatre, Palmerston North ''Mr A. Tong, formerly of Masterion, having been transferred to Hastings. Mr P. R. Barter, formerly of the Department of Agriculture, Wellington. who has been engaged recently on the nassella tussock survey in North Canterbury, has joined the department’s staff at Rangiora. Mr B. V. Cooksley, of Lower Hutt,' has been re-elected President of the Dominion Council of Commercial Growers. Mr Cooksley has been selected to contest the Otaki electorate in the interests of the National Party at the General Election. Lieutenant-Commander P. G. Connolly, who will return to New Zealand at the end of the year to take up a position in the Dominion, has been selected as the official Labour Party candidate for the Dunedin West seat, which is at present held by Dr D. G. McMillan. The sitting Labour members, Messrs F. Jones, P. Neilson and J. W. Munro, will again contest the other Dunedin seats in the interests of the party.