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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1943, Page 2

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Dr. M. J. Purdy has been appointed surgical registrar at the Mastertoil Hospital.

Mrs I. A. Hart yesterday returned to Wellington after a visit to her mother, Mrs F. Thurston, Cole Street, Masterton.

Advice has been received by Mr J. 'Leighton, Short Street, Masterton, that his son, Private J. Leighton, has been .wounded in action.

Mr and Mrs Thomson, 54 Bannister Street, Masterton, have received cabled advice from their son, L.A.C. R. E. G. (“Bob”) Thomson, that he has arrived safe and well at his destination.

Mr J. F. Thompson (Greytown) and the Managing-Secretary. Mr Norman Lee, will represent the Wairarapa Hospital Board at the Dominion conference of hospital boards to be held at Dunedin in February, 1944.

Mr A. L. Askew has been appointed employees’ representative on the Wairarapa Armed Forces Appeal Board. At yesterday’s meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board Mr Askew was granted leave of absence from his duties at the hospital when his services were'required for the Appeal Board.

The retirement of Mr Eustace Russell after 41 years of practice as a barrister and solicitor in Invercargill was the reason for a large attendance of members of the legal profession in Southland and representatives of the police force in the Magistrates' Court. Invercargill, yesterday. Tributes were paid to his ability and popularity over a long period of years as a member of the profession in Invercargill.