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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1943, Page 2

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Pilot Officer R. McNeur is the guest of Mrs David McNeur, Lansdowne. Mr H. M. Christie ahd Mr P. Kearins, Junr., have been appointed to the Board of Governors of Massey Agricultural College. The Hon. Mr Justice O’Regan has been reappointed judge of the Compensation Court for a further period to January 31, 1944. Mr J. D. Revie has been appointed a representative of the wool-growers on the New Zealand Wool Council in place of the late Mr H. D. Acland.

The Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, Prime Minister, left Wellington today for Auckland to open the new hospital block at the Green Lane Hospital, Epsom, tomorrow afternoon.

Mr W. Doig has been appointed to the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board as a representative of the producers of meat for export. He takes the place of the late Mr H. D. Acland.

For 23 years an employee at Petone Railway Workshops, Mr John- Haddy, who died recently at Upper Hutt at the age of 84, came to New Zealand with his wife and two children in 1900. A third son was born at Petone. When he retired from the workshops at the age of 65, Mr Haddy went farming at Wainui-o-Mata for five years and then retired to Upper Hutt. He leaves a widow, a daughter, Mrs C. Clarke, Martinborough, and two sons. He was for nearly 60 years a Sunday school teacher and worker among the young, and for about 50 years a member of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, England. Mr Haddy was an ardent Labour supporter.