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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1942, Page 2

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The wedding took place recently in Feilding of June Dorothy, fifth daughter of Mr and Mrs P. R. Kent, of Pongaroa, and Neil William Gordon (telegraphist of the R.N.Z. Navy), younger son of Mr and Mrs R. A. Gordon, of Hunterville.

Squadron Leader J. S. Dinsdale, D.F.C., Te Kuiti, married Miss Agnes Hill Tullis, of Strathendry Castle, Fifeshirc, at Leslie Church, a London cablegram reports . The best man was Flight Lieutenant R. G. Hartshorn, Auckland. Many of Dinsdale’s old squadron were present.

Reference to the death of Mr D. J. Cameron, a former member of the Wairarapa Hospital Board, was made at yesterday’s board meeting in Masterton. The chairman, Mr H. H. Mawley, paid a tribute to Mr Cameron’s services. Members stood in silence for a moment as a mark of respect.

The death has occurred of Mr William Satchell, author of the New Zealand novel, “The Greenstone Door,” says a Press Association telegram from Auckland. He was in his eighty-third year. Nr Satchell wrote prose and verse in England before coming to New Zealand in 1886. He settled at Hokianga, and went to Auckland in the early ’nineties. A Chicago message reports that Dr Frederick Stock, the noted musical conductor, died suddenly from heart failure. Born in Germany in 1872, he went to, Chicago in 1895 to join the Chicago Orchestra as a viola player. In 1905 he became director of the Theodore Thomas Orchestra (now the Chicago Symphony Orchestra), and occupied that position at the time of his death. He became a naturalised American citizen in 1919. The death occurred on Tuesday of Mrs John Chambers, of Mokopeka, a well known Hawke’s Bay settler. Mrs Chambers had been in ill-health for some time, and she died in her sleep in a private hospital in Hastings. Mrs Chambers was a sister of Mr H. M. Campbell, of Horonui, Poukawa, her father being the late Mr Hugh Campbell, one of Hawke’s Bay earliest settlers, who came from Australia.

The funeral of the late Mrs M. H. Doyle took place in Masterton yesterday afternoon, the service at St. Patrick’s Church and that at the graveside being conducted by the Rev. Father N. Moore. Wreaths were sent by St. Patrick’s Church Choir, the management and staff of the W.F.C.A. Ltd., and by a large number of other sympathisers. The pall-bearers were: Messrs W. Orange, F. Cairns, J. Bradbury, R. S. C. Agar, E. B. Beiliss and J. L. Gill. A casualty list published yesterday included the name of Flying Officer W. J. L. Lauchlan, Wellington, reported killed, on active service. He was 31 years of age, the only son of the late Mr J. B. Lauchlan, Hataitai. Flying Officer Lauchlan was. born in Palmerston North, and received his education at Scots College, Wellington. A few years ago he went to Australia to try his fortune there, and when war broke out was managing a copra planlalion near Rabaul, New Britain, for Burns, Philp and Co. He then returned to New Zealand and enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Air Force.