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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1943, Page 2

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Mrs J. Falloon, Auckland, has been visiting Masterton.

Mrs T. White, Hastings, is the guest of Mrs F. L. Barr, Carterton. Mrs P. J. Borthwick, “Eridge,” Lansdowne, has returned from a visit to Tauranga. Mrs Gilkison, who had been visiting Mrs T. L. Carr, Opaki Masterton, has returned to .Wellington. Mr and Mrs W. E. Vowell, Nursery Road, Masterton, have returned from a holiday spent at Paekakariki. Mrs D. M. Green, Kirton Street, Masterton, has received advice that her son, Gordon, who is a member of the R.N.Z.A.F., has been granted bis commission as a pilot officer, and is engaged on instructional duties in England. Cabled advice has been received in Wellington of the death in England on August 5 of Canon Charles Coleridge Harper, M.A., in his 76th year. He was formerly vicar of St. Peter’s Church, Wellington, and Archdeacon of Rangitikei. Canon Harper, who was born in Christchurch, was a son of the late Mr Leonard Harper and grandson of Bishop Harper, first Bishop of. x Christchurch, and successor of Bishop Selwyn in the Primacy of New Zealand.

The Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, Prime Minister, after attending the opening of the Manukau Intermediate School on Saturday afternoon and a civic reception to the Onehunga members of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. in the evening, left yesterday for Kawakawa. He spent last night at Russell and after a visit to the Ohaeawai School opened the Waiomio Native School and the Kawakawa Primary School today. In the evening, Mr Fraser will deliver a political addi’ess at Kaikohe. Ohaihau, Manganui and Kaitaia will be visited tomorrow and the tour will end with an address at a public meeting in Whangarei on Wednesday night. The Prime Minister expects to return to Wellington on Thursday.

The death has occurred of Mr William Carswell, of Maraekakaho, who had resided in the Hawke's Bay district for many years. He was the son of an old pioneer family. Mr Carswell’s mother was the first white child born in the Wellington Province. His father and mother lived for many years in the Wairarapa district at a place which bore their name (Blairlogie Junction, formerly Carswell’s). His grandfather and mother came out to New Zealand in the Aurora in 1840. Mr Carswell’s wife predeceased him. He leaves three sons, Messrs Douglas. Peter, and Donald (overseas). His sisters are Mrs George (Featherston), Mrs Sisson (Matamau), Mrs Burt (Hastings) and his brother, Mr T. Carswell (Auckland).