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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1942, Page 2

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The Hon. D. G .Sullivan, Minister of Supply, will return to Wellington today from the south. At the annual conference of the Associated Booksellers of New Zealand, held in Wellington, Mi’ H. E. Pither, of Masterton, was elected a vice-president.

The Rev. Father James O. Hendren. S.M., of St. Mary’s, Manchester Street, Christchurch, has been appointed parish priest at Otaki, and will leave shortly to take up his new duties. After nearly 20 years’ service, Mr Robert E. Herron will retire from the position of general manager of the Wellington City Corporation’s milk department on March 31. Mr Herron was appointed to the position on the establishment of the municipal milk scheme, during the regime as mayor of Mr R. A. Wright, at which time Sir Charles Norwood, who played a major part in the development of the scheme, was chairman of the milk committee. Advice has been received of the death at Yeoval, Somerset, of Lieut.-Colonel Robert Candlish Allen, D.S.O. and Bar, who had a notable record of service with the N.Z.E.F. in the last war. Lieut.-Colonel Allen was a brother of Sir Stephen Allen, K.8.E., C.M.G., D. 5.0., and was an uncle of Major J. M. Allen, M.P. for Hauraki, who was recently killed in Libya. Both Lieut.Colonel Allen and his brother, at different periods, commanded the 2nd Battalion Auckland Regiment, on the Western Front and in France.

A message from New Plymouth reports the death of Mr H. A. Foreman, of Tikorangi, near Waitara, at the age of 61. He was the third son of the late Mr J. W. Foreman, a pioneer Tikorangi settler, and Mrs Foreman, New Plymouth, and was actively associated with the district’s progress. He was Clifton County Council chairman when he died, and a member of Taranaki local bodies’ and a director of local firms. He was formerly a keen cricketer and took part in matches when the Foreman family fielded a full eleven. One of the few presentations of the Victoria Cross to take place in New Zealand will be held in Nelson next Monday, when Sergeant A. C. Hulme, V.C., will receive the award from the Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall. This presentation in his home town will coincide with the centennial celebrations of the Nelson Province, and is to take place on the cathedral steps. Sergeant Hulme was awarded the Victoria Cross during October for conspicuous, gallantry in Crete. He is still receiving medical treatment for an injury to a hand received on active service, and is making satisfactory progress, I