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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1941, Page 4

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Mr Geoffrey Hodson, London, is on 3 a visit to Masterton. . The Hon. W. Nash, Minister of Finj ancc, who is at present in Australia, will return to New Zealand tovzard the end of this week. ! The Hon. A. Hamilton, member of ■ the War Cabinet, was present at the , opening of the Military Staff College : in Palmerston North today. ! The Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, Prime Minister, is visiting Palmerston North today ' for the opening of the Military Staff College at Massey Agricultural College. Mr L. Kjar, of Masterton, has received official information that his son,i Corporal A. M. Kjar, who had been’ previously reported missing, was now: . a prisoner of war in Germany. Word was received in Masterton on Saturday night by Mr and Mrs J-i Coleman, that their son Graham, who! had been reported missing since June. I was now a prisoner of war in Ger-1 many. Mr and Mrs R. H. Pearson, of Pow-| nail Street, have received a postcard: from their son, Private T. L. Pearson, which was despatched from Germany, stating: “I am a prisoner of war and in good health. In the next letter I will give you my address.” The Rev. G. F. W. Quids, vicar of Matamata, has been appointed Archdeacon of Te Tai Hauauru, in place of the late Archdeacon Hori Raiti. Archdeacon Quids, who speaks Maori fluently, will become superintendent of the Maori Missions in the Waikato Diocese. During October, the Masterton Borough Council issued 11 building permits of an estimated value of £2643 17s 6d, as compared with 5 permits valued at £l5BB for the corresponding month last year, one new dwelling being included in each case. eluded in each case. The Masterton County Council issued one building permit to an estimated value of £4B last month. Before leaving for the Palmerston North military camp, Mr Ashley Andrews, of the Masterton Gas Office staff, was farewelled by fellow workers, the Town Clerk (Mr O’Hara Smith) remarking that if eventually he went overseas he could look forward to some more tangible token of staff esteem than the farewell of a health-toasting kind arranged at the close of a rather busy week-end. The Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister of Supply, left Wellington on Saturday night for Dunedin, where he is to open a “weapons from waste” display. He will visit Port Chalmers on Wednesday to be present at the official ceremony ■ of laying the keel of the first one of five minesweepers to be built at that port. The Minister will visit Invercargill on Thursday to address the Associated Chambers of Commerce. Pilot Officer T. W. M. Leckie, reported to have been killed in an aircraft accident while serving with the Royal Air Force overseas, was a son of the late Mr Frank M. Leckie, author of “The Early History of Wellington College, New Zealand,” and a former < Wellington representative footballer, 1 who was well known in Masterton. Pilot Officer Leckie, who also attend- 1 ed the college, was on the clerical 1 staff of Levin and Company, Wellington, before he joined up.