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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1943, Page 2

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The Rt Hon P. Fraser, Prime MinL ister, returned to Wellington today ’ from Auckland. The Hon D. G. Sullivan, Minister of r Supply and Munitions, is expected to [ return to Wellington tomorrow from . the north. I The death occurred suddenly at Wel- ; lington on Saturday of Mr Thomas > Arnold Moodie, superintendent for New • Zealand for Dalgety and Co., Ltd., . since August, 1937. The death occurred in Wellington after a short illness of Mrs Emily Frances Hogben, aged 85, widow of ■ the late George Hogben, C.M.G., who j was formerly Director of Education. ’ The Rt Rev H. J. O’Neill, D.D., will be consecrated Coadjutor Bishop-elect of Dunedin at St Joseph’s Cathedral, Dunedin, on March 25. The consecrating prelate will be his Grace Archbishop O’Shea, of Wellington. Father Paul Aubry, senior member of the Marist Order in New Zealand, died on Saturday in the Home of Compassion, Island Bay, Wellington, at the age of 85. Father Aubry, who was a native of France, laboured in the Dominion for nearly 60 years, and was well-known in South Canterbury,

Westland and Hawke’s Bay. He was Rector of the Seminary at Greenmeadows for a number of years. The death has occurred of Dr H. G. Denham, rector of Canterbury University College, states a Press Association message from Christchurch. Dr Denham was born in Christchurch in 1880. He was lecturer in chemistry and assistant professor of the University of Queensland from 1912 to 1921 and professor of inorganic chemistry, University of Cape Town, from 1921 to 1922. He had been a member of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research since 1926 and was elected chairman in 1934.