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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1941, Page 4

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The Hon. H. T. Armstrong, Minister of Public Works, is expected to return to Wellington from Taupo tonight. The Hon. H. G. R. Mason, Minister of Education, left Wellington for Auckland by the Limited express last night.

Mr Brian Jones, Masterton, has passed the chemistry physics and pure mathematics examinations in the first section of his B.Sc. Degree at the Canteibuiy University.

Mr P. H. W. (“Barney”) Ogier, formerly a well known cricketer in Wellington, died on Thursday at the age of 80 years. He represented Wellington for many years at cricket. "rhe Hon. R. Semple, Minister of Railways, will leave Wellington tqnight for the South Island. He will go to the West Coast to be present at the ceremony next week of driving the last spike in the Buller Gorge railway.

Mr J. Matthews has bene elected president of the United Kingdom Manufacturers and New Zealand Representatives Association. Messrs S. Burnell Browne, W. Simpson, and G. L. Giesen were elected vice-presidents.

An interesting photograph exhibited at last night’s annual meeting of the Masterton Collie Club, published in a journal in 1910, showed the original officers of the club. Among them were Mr Walter Cameron, who is at present a vice-president of the club, and Messrs A. Meikle and W. R. S. Willoughby*, who are still serving on the committee.

The death occurred at Havelock North yesterday of John Alexander McLean, a well-known resident of Havelock North. Born in Scotland in 1848, Mr McLean, in company with his wife, came to New Zealand in 1883, and for some years lived in Napier. They then moved to the Auckland district, and in 1913 returned to Hawke’s Bay, taking up residence in Havelock North. Mr McLean took an active part in public life. At the annual conference of the Wellington district branch of the New Zealand Institute of Clerks the election of officers resulted as follows:—President, Mr J. Hutton, Pahiatua; vicepresident, Mr H. H. Hardinge, Featherston; secretary-treasurer, Mr J. C. D. Mackley, Masterton; auditor, Mr G. Darbyshire, Wanganui; executive, Messrs W. L. Hesseltine, Kiwitea, L. J. Hagan, Pohangina, and E. T. Beaven, Wairarapa South.