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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1941, Page 4

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Mr W. T. Ikin, manager for New Zealand for the A.M.P. Society, is at present visiting Masterton. Mrs T. O’Neill, Masterton. has received advice that her son, Philip Thomas, is reported wounded and a prisoner of war in a Greek hospital. Mr H. S. Beaumont, Supervisor of Agencies of the A.M.P. Society, is paying an official visit to Masterton. Mrs J. M. Pownceby, of Masterton, has received word that her son, John Patrick Joseph, is reported wounded and a prisoner of war in a hospital in Greece.

Private L. J. Newland, son of Mr and Mrs T. Newland, Te Ore Ore Road, who was previously reported missing, is now announced to be a prisoner of war, and wounded, in Greece.

Mr S. J .Finlayson, of the Palmerston branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, and formerly of Masterton, has been transferred back to the Masterton branch. Mr H. P. Ahrens, of Pahiatua, has volunteered for service with the Second Battalion, Hawke’s Bay Regiment, and has gone to Waiouru Camp, where he will undergo a three months intensive training course.

Advice has been received by Mr and Mrs J. J. Barnes, of 30 Victoria Street, Masterton, that their son, Corporal Jim Barnes, who was previously reported wounded and missing, is now reported to be a prisoner of war in hospital in Greece.

The many friends of Mrs Clair Wyeth and Mrs K. Te Tau will be pleased to hear that news has been received to the effect that their brother, Private T. M. (Mutu) Ellison, of Karitane, Dunedin, who was posted as missing in the first casualty list from Greece, is now reported to be wounded and a prisoner of war.

Lieutenant-Commissioner J. Evan Smith, territorial commander of the Salvation Army.in New Zealand, and Mrs Smith, returned to Wellington by the Limited express from A.uckland this morning. They are back from an official visit to Australia and since returning to the Dominion have paid a series of visits as far north as Dargaville. The death occurred in Wellington yesterday of Mr Frank Holdsworth, brother of Mr S. Holdsworth, Sussex Street, Masterton, at the age of 69 years. The late Mr Holdsworth was educated at Wellington College and at the Wanganui Collegiate School. At the latter college he was a member of the First Rugby Fifteen, the First Cricket Eleven and the Rowing Four. He was a member of the Midland Cricket Club, Wellington, for some years. The death occurred in Wanganui recently of Mr Herbert Collier. Born in Manchester, Mi’ Collier came to New Zealand in 1878. He subsequently settled in Wanganui, where he established the music business of H. Collier and Company, in partnership with his brother, the late Mr Henry Collier. Mr Herbert Collier was for more than 55 years an active member of the Wanganui Orchestral Society, of which he was a foundation member.