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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1941, Page 4

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The Hon H. T. Armstrong, Minister of Public Works, and the Hon G. Barclay, acting-Minister of Lands, left Wellington today for Taupo. The death is announced, a Sydney cablegram reports, of Mr Theodore John Marks, aged 77 years, one of the city’s leading architects and a prominent racehorse owner. He was chairman of the Rosehill Racing Club. Dr. W. R. B. Oliver, Director of the Dominion Museum, Wellington, who opened the Masterton Art Club’s exhibition last night, returned to Wellington this morning. He was the guest of Mr and Mrs F. C. Brockett, Cole Street, during his visit to Masterton. One of Hawke’s Bay’s best known chiefs, Mr Te Koera Tareha, died at the Napier Public Hospital on Saturday at the age of 88. An elder brother of the late Kurupo Tareha, he was the last in line of the original chief of the Ngatikahungunus, being one of the last survivors of the old generation. He was the eldest son of Tareha Te Moananui, a leading Hawke’s Bay chief and the first Maori member of the New Zealand Parliament. Mr George Gavin Samson, a member of the research department of the British Ministry of Aircraft Production, was killed in an aircraft accident in England, advice being received on Sunday by his father, Mr J. M. Samson, the well-known racehorse owner. Mr Samson, who was 34 years old, went as a wireless operator with Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic expedition, and was the first New Zealander to win the British Empire Radio Union Cup in 1933. Six years ago he was appointed a radio engineer with Standard Telephonic and Cables, London, being in charge of the company’s television department until he joined the Ministry of Aircraft Production.