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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1943, Page 2

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Today their Excellencies the Gover-nor-General, Sir C. Newall, and Lady Newall, left Raincliff for a tour of Central Otago and a visit to Dunedin. Their Excellencies will resume residence at Government House, Wellington, on Sunday, February 7. Mrs F. C. Lewis, Renal! Street, Masterton, has returned from a visit to Wellington. Mrs Armstrong, who had been visiting Masterton, has returned to New Plymouth! Miss Bebe Francis, Renall Street, Masterton, has returned from a holiday spent in the South Island. I Mesdames Bloxam and H. Berney, Renall Street, Masterton, have returned from a visit to New Plymouth. Albert C. Moore, of Masterton, is the only Wairarapa candidate who qualified for the award of the University national ordinary bursary, and who is eligible to apply for a boarding bursary. Subject to the approval of the Director of Education, Miss A. R. Allum, M.A., Dip. Ed. .Auckland, is to be principal of the New Plymouth Girls’ High School as successor to Miss D. N. Allan, who has resigned after occupying the position for 17 years. Miss Allum is a daughter of the Mayor of Auckland, Mr J. A. C. Allum. The death of Mr Samuel Saunders, former editor of the “Lyttelton Times,” is reported in a Press Association message from Wellington. Born in 1857, Mr Saunders was for many years an outstanding figure in the newspaper life of New Zealand. He removed to Wellington after resigning the editorship of the “Lyttelton Times” in 1914, and latterly had been living in retirement in Eastbourne.