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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mi’ N, R. Mclsaac has been elected president of the Rotary Club of Dunedin.

The death occurred at Featherston on Saturday of Mr William Stewart, a well-known resident, at the age of 66 years.

Major Lucius O'Brien, Auckland, who commanded the North Island Battalion of the 9th New Zealand Contingent in the South African War, died in Auckland last week.

The death occurred last week at Burke Creek, as the result of a mining accident, of Mr Edward William Cutbush, who was well known on the West Coast and in Wellington as a footballer. He was a son of Mi’ and Mrs F. Cutbush. Reefton. The funeral took place at Reefton yesterday. Mr N. S. Woods, who has been secretary of the Christchurch Youth Centre since its inception, will leave for Wellington shortly to take up a research appointment with the Manpower Division. In 1936, Mr Woods, then on the staff of Otago University, left New Zealand for two years’ study of industrial relations and organisation in Great Britain and Europe under the award of a Rockefeller Fellowship in social science. The death occurred at Te Puke last week of Mr Thomas Vile, ninth son of the late Mr Job Vile, M.P., of Manawatu. The deceased, who had been resident in the Bay of Plenty for only a year or two, was formerly engaged in farming operations at Halcombe. He served in the Boer War and the Great War, and was badly wounded at Gallipoli. The late Mr Vile is survived by a widow and one daughter. Mr C. E. Vile, of Ohakea, Mr L. J. Vile, of Palmerston North, and Mr H. Vile, of Pahiatua, are brothers of the deceased.

The funeral of the .late Mr W. J. Fitzwater took place in Masterton on Saturday afternoon. The services were conducted by the Ven. Archdeacon E. J. Rich. The wreaths included those of the proprietors and drivers of the Gold Band Taxi Service, officers and members of the Loyal Masterton Manchester Unity Lodge of Odd Fellows, the staff of Mac Duff’s, Ltd., and the Bannister Street billiard saloon. The pall-bearers were Messrs R. Baikie and E. J. Mooney (Odd Fellows’ Lodge), Pte. G. Lockwood, Messrs H. Boustridge, J. Fitzwater and J. Hourigan. The late Mi’ Fitzwater is survived by his wife, mother, five brothers and one sister.