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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 July 1942, Page 2

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Miss Irene Thompson, formerly of Masterton, has passed the State final nursing examination at Palmerston North. Mr F. W. Gilligan, headmaster of the Wanganui Collegiate School, has been appointed lay canon of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Wellington. Mr W. E. Arnold has been appointed a member of the Wellington Diocesan Maori Endowment Trust Board, in place of the late Mr J. L. Barnicoat. The Hon. H. T. Armstrong, Minister of Public Works, who has recovered from his recent attack of influenza, returned to Wellington yesterday from Auckland. Mr F. M. Reynolds has resigned as district warden in Masterton on account of his health, and Mr R. R. Burridge has been appointed to the position. The marriage took place at St. Patrick's Church, Palmerston North, on Saturday last of Audrey, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs H. Keisenberg, Masterton, to Lieutenant Douglas Wellington, son of Mr and Mrs F. Wellington, Perry Street, Masterton. The Right Rev. Monsignor McManus officiated. The death occurred in Wellington on Wednesday of Mr Louis Douglas Hawkes Whitcombe in his 60th year. He was born in Christchurch, and was educated at Christ’s College. He began his commercial career with the firm of Messrs Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd., of which he later became a director.-For a considerable time ho was manager of the Wellington branch. Mr W. W. Mulholland, Mid-Canter-bury, was elected president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at the annual conference in Wellington yesterday. This will be his seventh term of office. Other officers elected were: Vice-presi-dent (overseas), Colonel F. Waite; vice-presidents, Mr A. Briscoe-Moore, Whangarei, and Mr K. J. Holyoake, Motueka; Dominion treasurer, Mr W. Horrobin, Waikanae; elected member (past president), Mr W. J. Polson, Stratford, Minister of Primary Production for War Purposes.