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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1942, Page 2

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President Roosevelt has announced, a Washington cablegram states, that Brigadier-General Hurley (who went to the United States six weeks ago in the same plane as the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser), is returning to New Zealand as United States Minister. The North Island Motor Union wrote to the monthly meeting of the executive committee of the Wairarapa Automobile Association stating that through the appointment of Mr R. AV. Roydhouse as a vice-president of the union, the Wairarapa Association was entitled to appoint a new member on the executive committee. Mr H. E. Jackson, one of the foundation members of the association, was unanimously elected to the position. The death occurred yesterday at Ballance, at the age of 87 years, of Mrs Barbara Sinclair, widow of the late Mr J. A. Sinclair, of the Shetland Isles, who, with the Holdaway and other Masterton families, left some fifty years ago to found the settlement of Ballance, which became a prosperous dairy centre. Whilst living in Wrigley Street, Masterton, the late Mrs Sinclair endeared herself to all who knew her as a sympathetic, helpful friend. At the Holy Trinity Church, Gisborne, last month, the marriage was celebrated of Miss Marcia Heather Maxwell, daughter of Mr and Mrs William Maxwell, Te Ana, Ruatoria, and Private Douglas David Foster, only son of Mr and Mrs D. Foster, Levin. The bridesmaids were Misses Mavis Salt (Gisborne) and Joan Cotterill (Napier). Sergeant D’Arcy Blackburn was best man, and Private W. L. Horton groomsman.

The board of governors of Wellington College has unanimously agreed on the appointment of Mr E, N. Hogben as headmaster of the AVellington College in succession to Mr AV. A. Armour, who is to retire at the end of the year. Mr Hogben is the headmaster of the Dannevirke High School, where he has been in charge for seven years, after having been first assistant in that school for almost the same period. He has also had experience as an assistant master in the Auckland Gramfar School, and in the Palmerston North Boys’ High School.