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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1941, Page 4

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Gunner Thos. Harris, of Fort Dorset, visited his parents at Solway over the weekend.

Mr L. J. Furrie. headmaster of the Stratford primary school, will retire on January 31 next. He has been teaching for 46 years. The Rev. Laurance V. Bibby, Canterbury, has accepted a call from St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church, Lower Hutt, and will be inducted by the Wellington Presbytery at St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church tomorrow night.

Lieutenant G. E. L. Dawson, N.Z.S.C., instructor in tactics at the Northern Military District school of instruction, Narrow Neck, has been appointed to the Tank Brigade which is to serve with the Expeditionary Force. He is being succeeded at Narrow Neck by Lieutenant R. J. H. Webb. On Sunday morning a well-known Kaitawa (Pahiatua) farmer, Mr Arthur Booth, was found dead. Mr Booth had finished the milking of his herd and was washing his hands over the sink when he expired .Mr Booth was 59 years of age. The death occurred in Wellington on Saturday of Dr. Sidney Harcourt Arthur. Dr. Arthur was born in Invercargill, and was for some years employed in the Bank of New Zealand in Dunedin. After leaving the bank he went to Edinburgh to take his medical degree, returning to New Zealand in 1912. He served in the Great War. The funeral of the late Mr Ernest Samuel Vennell, of Te Wharau, took place in Masterton yesterday afternoon, there being a representative attendance of mourners, including many Te Wharau residents. A service' was held at St. Matthew’s Church by the Ven. Archdeacon E. J. Rich, who also officiated at the cemetery. Messrs F. Cotter, R. A. Wilton, W. Carroll, P. Carroll, J. Mason and R. Schormann were the pall-bearers.

Mr D. P. Howlett has been selected by the National Party as its candidate foi’ the Wellington South Electorate. Mr Howlett is 47 years old and is the son of the late Mr Horatio Howlett, Dargaville. At the oubreak of the present war Mr Howlett, who is a returned soldier, was appointed supervisor of the Home Service section at Base Records, and was later promoted to the position of officer in charge of Records Area No. 5. Mr Howlett contested the 1938 election against the sitting member for Wellington South, Mr McKeen. The Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, a member of the War Cabinet, left Wellington by air today for Dunedin and will officially open the new premises of thu Dunedin Manufacturers' Association. He will speak at the annual meeting of the association at night. Mr Coates will fly from Dunedin to Christchurch tomorrow, and will attend a luncheon being given by the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association. He will meet the Christchurch Chamber ol Commerce in the afternoon, and the Victoria League at night, returning to Wellington on Thursday. Two Whangarei airmen, Squadron Leader Derek Ward and Squadron Leader Douglas Morrish, have received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Force Cross respectively, according to official cables received yesterday, a Whangarei Press Association message states. Squadron Leader Ward has been in the Air Force throughout the war and is now in the Middle East. Squadron Leader Morrish has been instructor at a flying school in England since shortly after the outbreak of the war and a large number of New Zealanders have passed through his hands.