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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1942, Page 2

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Mrs H. H. Daniell, Lansdowne, is visiting Wellington. Mrs Neil Irwin, Pownall Street, Masterton, is on a visit to New Plymouth. Mr and Mrs N. H. James, and Mrs Grylls, Masterton, are spending a holiday in Auckland. Mr W. E. Scott, Kapuni, Taranaki, has been appointed as Government nominee on the New Zealand Dairy Board.

The Hon. W. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs, left Wellington for Auckland by the Limited express last night. •

The death occurred at Palmerston North on Monday of Mr George Cox, formerly of Pongaroa and Eketahuna, at the age of 69 years.

Airman J. M. Douglas, son of Mr and Mrs Mackenzie Douglas, of Masterton, has been promoted to Sub-lieutenant in the Fleet Air Arm.

Mrs M. Ford, Cornwall Street, has received cabled advice from her husband, Pte. Jack Ford, who is overseas, that he is safe and well.

Miss Peggy Nicol, of the Hamilton Hospital nursing staff, is spending a holiday with her parents, Mr and Mrs L. S. Nicol, Upper Plain.

The many friends in Masterton of Mr Earl Cross will be pleased to hear that he has cabled to his mother that he is safe and. well in the Middle East. The Hon. P. C. Webb, PostmasterGeneral, visited the Wairarapa yesterday to inspect earthquake damage to Post and Telegraph_ Department property.

Mrs Rogers, of 22 Pownall Street, Masterton, has received a cable stating that her husband, Pte. Nelson Rogers, who is in the Middle East, is safe and well.

Mr and Mrs A. Clemas, 14 Cole Street, Masterton, have received a cable from their son, Clifford, who is in the Middle East, stating that he is safe and well.

The death occurred at the Masterton Hospital yesterday of Mrs E. Mount, wife of Mr J. Mount, Cornwall Street, Master ton. She leaves a husband and a family of eight to mourn their loss. The engagement is announced of Mavis, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs A. McLeod, Lincoln Road, Masterton, to Thomas Noel, youngest son of Mr and Mrs J. O'Dowd, Millard Avenue, Masterton.

The Rev Bro Fidelis, a well-known member of the Marist Brothers, died recently in the novitiate, Timaru. Brother Fidelis joined the order in 1897, and was particularly well known in Wellington and Auckland, where he taught for many years. He was respected for the interest he took in ecclesiastical music, having been a member of the Church Music Commission in the diocese of Wellington. The death occurred in Wellington yesterday of the first New Zealand Government architect, Mr John Campbell. He was born in Glasgow in 1857, and studied architecture there before coming to New Zealand in 1882. In the following year he was appointed a temporary clerk in the Public Works Department in Dunedin, and in 1890 became a draughtsman in the building section of the department in Wellington. In 1892 he was appointed the department’s architectural designer, and when in 1897 it was decided to have an official Government architect, Mr Campbell was the first man to hold that office, from which he retired in 1922.