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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 October 1941, Page 4

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Mr S. Freeman, Dominion organising secretary of the Young Farmers’ movement. who has been visiting Masterton. left this afternoon for Palmerston North. Word has been received in Masterton that Sergt.-Pilot. Frank Gillions, of the Royal .New Zealand Air Force, has arrived in England after a course of training in Canada. At a meeting of directors of the Wairarapa Farmers’ Co-operative Association Ltd. (held after the annual general meeting of shareholders), Mr V. E. Donald was re-elected chairman for the ensuing year. The Rev. J. G. Laughton, superintendent of Maori Misions of the Presbyterian Church, was unanimously nominated by the Auckland Presbytery as mod-erator-designate of the Church for 1942-43. He has also been nominated by the Waikato Presbytery. The New Zealand delegation to the International Labour Conference this month in New York has been completed by the appointment of Mr H. E. Moston. C.8.E., Under-Secretary for Labour. Mr Moston will leave Auckland by the Anzac Clipper on Saturday. The other members of the delegation have already left for the United States. Major Alfred Ernest Douglas died at Lower Hutt on Sunday. Born in England in 1870, he was educated in London, and retired from the Army with the rank of major in 1924, when he came to New Zealand with his wife and family. For 17 years he had lived at Lower Hutt, and had devoted some time to painting. His wife predeceased him nine weeks ago. Formerly New Zealand amateur lightweight champion, Pilot Officer R. J. Minnis, a well-known Wellington wrestler, who was previously reported missing, is now reclassified missing, but believed killed in action. He left New Zealand in September, 1940, for Canada, and was one of the first batch of New Zealand and Australian air gunners to receive a commission with the R.A.F. Major G. H. Gray, M.C, N.Z.T.S., who has been appointed Officer Commanding the sth Training Battalion, Trentham, has been a battalion commander at Burnham for the last 18 months, and at one stage before the war was in command of the Ist Battalion, Nelson, Marlborough, and West Coast Regiment. Major Gray, who comes from Blenheim, served in the last war.