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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 January 1942, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mrs R. S. Pilmer, Whareama, is spending a week in Wellington. Mrs E. Sortain Smith, Renall Street, is staying at Eastbourne. Mrs D. M. Paterson, Khandallah, who has been staying with Mrs Groves, Bushgrove, has returned home. The Rev. Father Murphy, Whangarei, has been transferred to Nelson. His successor is the Rev. Father O’Connor, Timaru. Mrs Margaret Adams, widow of the Hon. Mr Justice Adams, died in her sleep at her home in Christchurch on Monday morning. Mrs Adams, who was in her 76th year, had been in failing health for the last few years. Reference to the retirement of Mr E. D. Cachemaille from the position of chief engineer to the Wellington Harbour Board, and to the appointment of Mr K. T. Jenssen, resident engineer, to the position of acting-chief engineer, was made at a meeting of the board last night. The death has occurred at Auckland of the Hon. E. Dye, a member of the Legislative Council. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr Parry, said last night that Mr Dye was very highy respected by the Labour Party for his forthrightness and honesty of purpose in public and private life. In other days of mining in Karangahake and Waihi, Mr Dye worked with several of the present members of the Legislature, including the Minister of Public Works, Mr Armstrong, and himself (Mr Parry). He was a man of a fine public-spirited-ness which guided him in his energies on behalf of his fellows. “I know of no member of the Legislature,” Mr Parry said, “with the encyclopaedic memory of Mr Dye for dates of happenings in New Zealand and in Parliament in particular. His retentive memory will be missed by many members who benefited by recourse to it.” The death is reported by a Press Association message from Napier of Mr John Payne, aged 72, a former M.P. for Grey Lynn. The late Mr Payne was for some time on the staff of the Seddon Memorial Technical College at Auckland, but went into the moving picture business before 1911. in which year he was elected M.P. for Grey Lynn, as a Social Democrat, defeating the Hon. G. Fowlds on the second ballot. He defeated the Hon. G. Fowlds and Mr M. McLean in 1914, but retired in 1918. He spent some years in Australia, where he was secretary to Mr John Storey, the Labour Premier of New South Wales. He returned to New Zealand, and lately had been living in Napier. Deceased was well known in Masterton, where he established the first permanent picture show over 30 years ago—the Thompson-Payne Pictures, which were shown nightly in the old Foresters’ Hall in Queen Street, now the site of the State Theatre.