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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1943, Page 2

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Mr K. J. Aplin left Masterton yesterday to enter a military camp. Mrs G. G. Tolhurst, Cole Street, Masterton, is visiting Wellington. _ Miss Thelma Major, Upper Plain, has returned from a visit to Hamilton. Mrs N. Irwin, Pownall Street, Masterton, is spending a few days in Wellington. Sister I. Thompson, of Auckland, is paying a visit to Masterton and is staying at “Braebur n. ’ The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Peter Fraser, who arrived in Masterton last evening to give an address at the State Theatre, left after the meeting for Wellington. Mr and Mrs C. A. Burling, “Mahunga,” Masterton, announce the engagement of their only daughter, Nancy Gladys, to Ormond Hevinson (ex R.N.Z.N.), third son of Mr and the late Mrs N. G. Rayner, “The Firs,” Masterton. An old resident of Lower Hutt, Mr John Bentley, died on Sunday at the age of 77. Mr Bentley had lived at the Hutt for 50 years. Originally a builder by trade, he went in for mixed farming at Taita. He was a member of the Farmers’ Union and of the Wellington Dairy Farmers’ Association. He was also among the promoters of the Wellington Trotting Club, of which he was a steward for 20 years. Mr Richard Fairbrother, son of the late Mr Richard Fairbrother, a membbr of an old pioneering family of the Wairarapa, died in the Napier Hospital recently. An accountant by profession, Mr Fairbrother had been in business in Taranaki for many years. He leaves two son 4, Peter, of Napier, and Geoffrey (on furlough from the Middle East). His wife and son Jack predeceased him four years ago.