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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1943, Page 2

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♦— Major L. D. Lovelock, who recently returned from overseas, is spending some sick leave in Pahiatua. Mr A. D. Tench, Christchurch, was yesterday elected president of the New Zealand Motor Traders’ Association. Messrs P. F. Fagan (South Wairarapa) and T. W. Watts (North Wairarapa) have been elected members of the Council of the New Zealand Retail Motor Trade Association. The reappointment of Mr H. M. Christie to the New Zealand Wool Council as the representative of the Government was gazetted last night. Mr L. T. Daniell (Masterton) and Mr G. C. Warren have been appointed the wool growers’ representatives on the council..

A report published in Auckland states that the name of Mr G. P. Finlay, barrister and solicitor in that city, is mentioned in well-informed quarters in connection with the appointment of a judge to preside over the Land Sales Court to be set up under the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act recently passed by Parliament. Mr Finlay is a former president of the Auckland Law Society, and before going to Auckland about 20 years ago was in practice in Te Kuiti. Two ex-pupils of the Masterton District High School are presidents respectively of the Canterbury and Otago tranches of the Royal Society. They are Professor I. Sutherland, professor of philosophy, Canterbury College, who is president of the Canterbury branch of the society, and Dr. R. Gardner, of Dunedin, who is president of the Otago branch. Another ex-pupil of the Masterton District High School, who is on the staff of the chemistry department at Canterbury College, is Mr. H. N. Parton.

Swimming enthusiasts who witnessed the record-breaking efforts of the Rotorua girl swimmer, Nawi Kera, during the national intermediate and junior championships in Hamilton in January, 1936, will learn with regret of the Maori champion’s death a few days ago. On the first day of that meeting she won the junior girls’ 100 yards title in the fast time of 67 l-ssec., a record, which she later reduced in swimming 66 1-5 sec. unpaced. On the second day she equalled the Dominion record of 29 4-5 sec. in a heat of the junior girls’ championship 50 yards.