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Mr F. W. Furkert, Wellington, has been appointed a member of the Town Planning Board. He succeeeds the late Mr A. J. Baker. ,
Miss H. I. Crooke, director-general of the New Zealand Red Cross V.A.D’s., is visiting Masterton on a tour of inspection of voluntary aids in the Wairarapa centre.
The death occurred in hospital in Wellington yesterday, after a brief illness, of Mr Frederick W. Grainger, inspector and supervisor of shipping for the New Zealand Dairy Produce Control Board.
Mr H. W. Shortt, Wellington, was yesterday re-elected president of the Federation of New Zealand Justices’ Associations, to hold office till the next conference in Auckland. Mr J. B. Paterson, Auckland, was elected vicepresident.
The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, left Wellington today for’ Napier to attend the funeral there tomorrow of Mr C. W. Nash, son of the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, and Mrs Nash. From Napier Mr Fraser v.’ill proceed to the East Coast for the presentation at Ruatoria on Wednesday ci the Victoria Cross to the parents of the late Second Lieutenant Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu, and for the opening of Maori meeting-houses. The Prime Minister will return to Wellington toward the end of next week.
The increasingly important part being played by the Royal New Zealand Air Force in the Dominion’s war activities in the South Pacific has been reflected in a decision by the Government to appoint a senior officer of the R.N.Z.A.F. as head of the New Zealand Joint Staff Mission in Washington. Announcing this last evening, the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, stated that Air Commodore J. L. Findlay, M.C., previously Air Officer Commanding, Central Group, R.N.Z.A.F., would take over from Brigadier A. B. Williams, D. 5.0., the duties of senior member of the Joint Staff Mission. Air Commodore Findlay would also become JI.N.Z.A.F. representative to the Combined Chiefs of Staff in Washington, relieving Group Captain J. Seabrook, A.F.C., who had acted in this capacity for some months.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1943, Page 2
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