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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1942, Page 2

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Lieut, and Mrs J. Graham, of Masterton, spent the weekend in Pahiatua as the guests of Mr and Mrs A. Bisset, Mir J. Salt, formerly teacher at the Pahiatua District High School, has been appointed second-assistant master at the Granity District High School. Muss R. Martin, who has been postmistress at Porirua since 1915, is now on retiring leave after 33 years of service with the Post and Telegraph Department'. The engagement is announced of Mary Kathleen, second daughter of Mr and Mrs P. J. Willcock, Lansdowne., and Henry Percy, eldest son of Mr ana Mrs D Blatchford, Manaia, Masterton. Captain H. C. White, harbour master at Timaru, had a seizure yesterday afternoon when about to take charge of a ship to pilot her into port, and died before the vessel reached the wharf, a Press Association message reports. The death has occurred of Mr John Albert Bark, aged 61, a former wellknown school teacher, who had lived in retirement for the past three and a half years. Mr Bark arrived in New Zealand in 1912, and relieved as headmaster at Burnham Reformatory, Canterbury. Then he went to Auckland to the Newton West and Mount Eden schools, from which he went to Onewhero as headmaster, leaving there for Mangapapa School and Te Hapara School, Gisborne. He later became headmaster first of the Tolaga Bay School and then of Central School, Hastings, spending 16 years there.