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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1942, Page 2

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Private W. Orsborn, of Masterton, has returned from Suva on furlough. The Hon H. G. R. Mason, Minister of Education, returned to Wellington yesterday from the north. The Hon W. A. Bodkin, Minister of Civil Defence, will leave Wellington tomorrow for the South Island. He expects to return to Wellington early next week. Among the successful candidates at (he recent State hospital examination was Nurse Jean MacKenzie, only daughter of Mr and Mrs John MacKenzie, of East Taratahi. Nurse MacKenzie is on the staff of the New Plymouth Hospital where she received her training. Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., . has been appointed principal magistrate in Christchurch in succession to Mr H. A. Young, S.M., who retired last January. Mr Levvey, who has served on the Bench for more than 23 years, went to Christchurch in 1935, when Mr E, D. Mosley, S.M., was transferred to Wellington. Previously he had held office in Nelson, Blenheim, Dunedin, the West Coast, Otago and Invercargill. The death occurred recently of Mr J. R. Hobman, whose birth 79 years ago was the first to be recorded in the register of the Greytown Post Office. Mr Hobman spent many years sawmilling in the Wairarapa and Hawke’s Bay, and went to Wellington 34 years ago, since when he had for the greater part of the time been employed by the Wellington Gas Company. In his early years 'Mr Hobman took an active part in all the sports clubs and cultural societies in Greytown. He was one of the oldest members of the Loyal Eketahuna Lodge, 1.0.0. F. Mr Hobman married Miss Elizabeth Tom, of Dalcfield, 51 years ago, and is survived by his wife and family of four sons and three daughters.