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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1943, Page 2

PERSONAL

Major B. H. Pringle, of Masterton, has been promoted to the rank of lieu-tenant-colonel, and is now in command of a battalion in the Pacific. Pleasure was expressed at last night’s meeting of the Masterton Borough Council that Councillor G. W. Morice was again able to take up his duties as a councillor after a period of illness.

Among those present as one of the hosts at a reception given in Wellington on Monday to Mr T. G. D'Alton. High Commissioner for Australia, was Major Stanley Fletcher, M.C., of Masterton, who was a member of the 14th Light Horse, A.1.F., in the Great War.

Mrs D. Brosnahan, of Konini, has received advice that her son, Athol Mahoney, Bush, North Island and All Black Rugby footballer, who is a prisoner of war, has been transferred from prisoner-of-war camp 107, Italy, to a camp in Germany.

The following Wairarapa candidates have satisfied the University of New Zealand examiners in the subjects concerned:—History HL, section 8.A., A. A. Ross, Diploma in Education; history of education, principles of teaching and experimental education, T. Sweeney; chemistry of engineering materials, descriptive geometry and applied mechanics, D. L. Parr; Dental professional, first professional examination for the degree of 8.D.5., B. D. Walsh. After the Wairarapa Hospital Board meeting had commenced in Masterton this morning, the acting chairman, Mr Trevor Beetham, and the ManagingSecretary, Mr Norman Lee, left at 11 a.m. for Palmerston North where at 1.30 p.m. a meeting of hospital board representatives was held. The meeting was in connection with the joint control of sanatoria. Mr P. R. Welch took the chair in Mr Beetham’s absence.

The Acting Prime Minister, Mr Nash, announced yesterday that Cabinet had recently approved the retirement on superannuation of Judge H. F. Ayson, Resident Commissioner and Chief Judge in the Cook Islands, with headquarters at Rarotonga. Judge Aysons service in the Cook Islands began in June, 1916, as Judge of the Native Land Court and of the High Court. In 1922 he became Resident Commissioner, while retaining his other appointments, and he so continued for a period of 21 years, broken only by a years sei vice with the Native Department in New Zealand in 1937-38, till he left Rarotonga on retirement in September of this year. He is a son of the late Mr L. F. Ayson, who for many years was in charge of the Masterton fishponds as curator.