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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1942, Page 2

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Mrs E. G. Norman, Cole Street, Masterton, is visiting Auckland. Mrs Stanley Lamb, Solway, has returned from a visit to Wellington. Mrs A. Mutrie, Hessey Street, Masterton, will celebrate her 89th birthday on Saturday next.,

Mrs Sturtevant, Victoria Street, Masterton, has been on a visit to Para-’ paraumu beach. A son of the Rev A. C. Lane, of Masterton, Mr Maurice Lane, an engineer in the Mercantile Marine, is reported missing.

Flight Lieutenant L. C. Hansen and Flying Officer E. E. Pittock, both of Wellington, have arrived in London, and are now attached to New Zealand air liaison, a cablegram reports. The engagement is announced of Jean, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs B. W. Ackerman, The Terrace, Lansdowne, to Maurice, eldest son of Mr and Mrs H. E. Godden, Mauriceville.

Colonel Gilbert James Beattie, of Wadestown, who died on Tuesday, was a retired soldier whose service extended from the volunteer days of the early part of the century to after the Great War. Before the Great War he was a member of D Battery in Wellington. Going to Christchurch, he was in command of E Battery when war broke out in 1914. He left New Zealand in 1915 and commanded the sth Battery on Gallipoli and in France. He returned to New Zealand before the end of the war, .and had command of the 3rd Brigade, with headquarters at Christchurch, when he retired from the Army.