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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 August 1941, Page 4

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Lieutenant-Colonel F. K. Turnbull, D. 5.0., M.C., formerly of the Wellington (West Coast) Regiment, has been appointed commandant of Papakura Camp. Lieutenant-Colonel C. S. White, V.D., formerly commandant, was recently transferred to the Expeditionary Force for duty, and the camp has been temporarily under the command of Major R. S. Halliwell, M.C., assistant quartermaster-general, Northern Military District. The death has occurred in hospital in Greece of Private James Millar Kilgarriff, formerly of the Wairarapa. The late Private Kilgarriff, who was 24 years of age, was born at Biairlogie. He was educated at the Whareama School and the Masterton Technical School. He was the youngest son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Kilgarriff, of Fitzherbert West, Palmerston North. Mrs J. Tulloch, of Masterton, is a sister and Messrs J. and T. M. Kilgarriff are brothers.

At yesterday’s session of the conference in Wellington of the New Zealand Vocational Guidance Association, the following officers were elected: —President, Mr A. A. Kirk. Wellington: vicepresident, Miss M. F. E. Adams, Auckland; secretary and treasurer, Mr S. H. Petersoh, Wellington; honorary auditor, Mr T. L. James, Wellington; committee, Miss L. E. Vial, Dunedin, Messrs G. M. Keys, Christchurch, and C. Burton, Gisborne, and Dr. Winterbourn, Christchurch. Mr F. H. Porter (Wellington) was elected president of the Dominion Federation of School Committees Associations at the annual conference of the federation in Wellington yesterday. Other officers were elected as follows: ' Vice-presidents, Mr J. D. Clyde (Dunedin), Mr J. Garcia (New Plymouth); secretary, Mr T. K. Moody (Wellington); Dominion executive, Messrs J. Fyfe, N. E. Dowmer, P. Fifield, and Mesdames M. J. Bentley and M. O’Donnell (all of Wellington).

The death occurred on Tuesday of Mr John Lee Barnicoat, Brougham Street, Wellington. Born in Nelson in 1856, he was a son of one of New Zealand’s earliest pioneers, the late Hon. J. W. Barnicoat, M.L.C., Nelson, who arrived there from Falmouth. Cornwall, England, in 1842. He received his education at Nelson College, and at 17 years of age entered the service of the Union Bank of Australia. He was manager of the bank at Greymouth when there was a rush to the West Coast gold diggings, being at that time the youngest bank manager in New Zealand. In 1892 he was manager of the bank at Blenheim, and, the next year was transferred to a similar position at Palmerston North, where he remained for 26 years, retiring in 1919 to live in Wellington.