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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 April 1942, Page 2

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Mr and Mrs R. N. Palmer, Longbush, are spending a holiday in the Hawke’s Bay and Rotorua districts. Mr and Mrs L. W. Hurndell, of Park Road, Carterton, have received cable information that their son, Ordinary Seaman Lawrence Hurndell, is missing. The Dominion executive committee of the New Zealand Returned Services Association has confirmed the appointment of Mr John Morgan Davies, Wellington, as editor-manager of the association’s journal, “Review.” Thirty-nine years’ service with the Wellington Acclimatisation Society as curator of the Masterton fish hatchery has been closed by Mr J. G. Miller, who has retired at his own request. The society’s council decided last night to make him a grant of £5O in recognition of his long and faithful service. Mrs N. Newland has received a letter from her son, Lieutenant Cliff Newland, who, with several mates, received an extra star in Libya, stating that he was acting as chief machinegun instructor in the School of Instruction in Egypt at the time he wrote. With him as senior instructor was Warrant Officer Ron Johnson, who is also well known in Masterton.

A link with the early days in New Zealand was severed in Palmerston North on Sunday, when the death occurred at her home, Terrace End, of Mrs A. F. Stevenson (nee Jean MacDonald Grant). The deceased, who was born in 1868, was the elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Grant, “Bannockburn,” Gladstone, pioneer Wairarapa settlers. She leaves a husband, five sons and two daughters. She had formerly lived for many years in Gladstone and the Forty Mile Bush.