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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1943, Page 2

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Mrs Neal Irwin, Pownall Street, Masterton, is visiting Ashburton. Mr and Mrs K. Ellison, who have been spending a holiday with Mr and Mrs S. R. Gawith, Upper Plain, have returned to Hawke’s Bay. Messrs Bruce Ross and Donald Ross, of Longbush, left today on a holiday which will be spent at New Plymouth and the Bay of Islands. Mr and Mrs J. K. Moore, Waterloo Road, Lower Hutt, have been the guests of Mr and Mrs H. F. Bennett, “Springfield,” Manaia Road, Masterton. The engagement is announced of Alma Jean, second daughter of Mr and Mrs E. W. Tooby, Essex Street, Masterton, to Thomas Wayne, elder son of Mr and Mrs Charles Gilkey, .Seattle, Washington. The New Zealand Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, has arrived in London from the Middle East; a cablegram reports. He is to confer in London on some of the problems the Allies are facing on the Pacific battlefront. Miss M. Moriarty (Pahiatua) has been appointed to the Pahiatua office staff of the Tarawa Electric Power Board in succession to Miss Grace Gallagher, who recently resigned in order to get married. Mr and Mrs R. H. Williams, Masterton, have received advice that their son, Bombadier G. Williams, who left New Zealand with the First Echelon and was wounded recently at Tripoli, has now been discharged from hospital. The death is reported in a Press Association telegram from Dunedin of Mr. William Paterson, well known through his long association with the Otago Early Settlers’ Association, of which he became secretary in 1915. He was 90 years of age at his death. Born in Edinburgh, he went early to Otago, and was educated at Dunedin and Port' Molyneaux. He was a general storekeeper in the Clutha district till 1913, when he settled in Dunedin.