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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1942, Page 2

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Mrs C. Elgar, of Featherston, has taken up her residence in Christchurch.

Miss Janet Perry, of Rongomai, was the guest of Mrs P. W. Dixon, Renall Street, Masterton, for the weekend. The Leningrad radio has announced that M. Maisky has been awarded the Order of Lenin for outstanding services to the Soviet Union. The occasion of the award is the tenth anniversary of M. Maisky’s ambassadorship to Britain.

A Press Association message from London announces the death at the age of 95 of Prebendary Wilson Carlile, the venerable head of the Church Army. Prebendary Carlile founded the Church Army, a Church of England organisation, in 1882. A branch was formed in New Zealand in 1935, when Prebendary Carlile sent out a party of evangelists and sisters, the headquarters being Auckland, with Captain S. R. Banyard as Dominion director.

The death occurred in Wellington Hospital last night, after a long illness, of Pilot Officer Arthur C. Long, aged 29. Pilot Officer Long received serious injuries to his head and back when a dual control training plane in which he and another officer had been on a training flight, crashed into the Auckland harbour on January 6. 1941. Pilot Officer Long - was educated at Wellington College and Victoria University College, where he graduated B.Com. He ,was the son of the Rev F. C. Long, general secretary to the New Zealand Anglican Board of Missions in Wellington.