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Dr. J. Williams, professor of English and New Zealand law at Victoria University College, has returned to Wellington from a visit to Australia. The Hon. R. Eddy, M.L.C., and Mr B. Sutherland, Wellington, have left Auckland to attend the coming International Labour Conference in New York. Mr Eddy was selected as a representative by the Federation of Labour, and Mr Sutherland was chosen by the employers. Mr Peter Lehman, eldest son of Governor Lehman of New York State, has enlisted as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force, a New York cablegram reports. Mr Lehman holds a pilot’s licence for seaplanes. He tried to enlist in the United States Air Force but was rejected because he was married. The Pahiatua Boy Scout troop, has elected the following officers for the ensuing year:—Chairman, Mr J. Hutton; secretary, Mr L. Kitchen; treasurer, Mr Robertson; auditor, Mr P. J. Lloyd; committee, Messrs Tattle, Barraclough, Husband. Nisbet, Button and Mesdames P. A. Bisset. Purdie, Stuart, J. Swanney, Boyd, and Kitchen. The death occurred yesterday of Mr James Alexander Warnock, aged 68. says an Auckland Press Association message. He gave 25 years of his life to the public service, serving on the city council for 12 years, two of them as deputy-mayor. He unsuccessfully contested the mayoralty in 1927. He was a director of a number of Auckland companies, and a past president of the Automobile Association (Auckland). The death has occurred at the Wairoa Hospital of one of the oldest members of Freemasonry in New Zealand, Mr John William Sargisson. at the age cl' 93. He was a foundation member and a past master of the Lodge Waikaremoana, Wairoa. Fie came to New Zealand from England, 65 years ago, and for three years was an accountant at Napier, then going to Wairoa, where he went into business as an auctioneer and commission agent. He held many public positions in the town, such as clerk of the old Wairoa Town Board, and clerk of the Wairoa Harbour Board. He was also secretary for many years of the Wairoa Racing Club. Mr Sargisson was organist for Masonic ceremonies, and also organist of St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Wairoa, as well as being a vestryman. He leaves four children, Mr P. W. Sargisson, Gisborne. Mrs E. Hagus. Wairoa, Mrs E. J. Green. Masterton. and Mr C. N. Sargisson, Feilding.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1941, Page 4

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PERSONAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1941, Page 4

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