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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1943, Page 2

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4 Mrs Walton Whyte, Masterton, is on a visit to Rotorua. f Mrs James Andrew, “lea,” Whareama, is staying at Paraparaumu Beach. Mr L. Pearson has been elected president of the Wairarapa branch of the New Zealand Road Transport Alliance, in place of Mr Alex Young, who has retired after some years’ service in that capacity. Mr and Mrs E. M. Wickens, Perry Street, Masterton, have received advice that their son Russell, who has been training in the R.N.Z.A.F. in Canada, has successfully passed .his examinations as wireless operator and air gunner, and has been promoted to the rank of sergeant. Sergeant Wickens is now posted to an Air Observers’ School, and has been recommended for a commission.

The death is reported in a Press Association telegram from Christchurch of Mr Etienne Xavier Le Lievre, of Akaroa. He had a long association with Banks Peninsula, having been born at Akaroa on June 23, 1854, the son of E. F. Le Lievre, of Normandy, France, who came first to New Zealand with a French whaler in 1938. E. F. Le Lievre was a member of the crew of the Comte de Paris, which brought settlers to Akaroa in August, 1840, but returned to France with the ship and came out finally to settle at Akaroa in 1842. Mr E. X. Le Lievre imported many trotters to New Zealand. He bred and raced Peter Bingen, winner of a New Zealand Cup, and he won the Wellington Cup with Great Audubon.