PERSONAL NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 117, 13 November 1943, Page 8

PERSONAL NOTES

Mr,. L. W.E., Hedges, ! ;.,<)fc ! New,.Ply4 'mouth, has been awarded the Boy, Scouts Association's medal of merit by his Excellency the Governor-General; Dominion Chief Scout, for good ser-^ vices as scoutmaster since 1923. The, high standard set by him amongst hid boys is reflected by many old Scouts! serving overseas. . . Mr. J. Maher has been re-elected chairman of the Wellington Dairjj Farmers' Co-op. Association, Ltd. ■ Commissioner J. Evan Smith, ±erri-J torial commander of the Salvation Arm^ in New Zealand, accompanied by Mrs Smith, will begin at Waimate today a lengthy tour of the Spilth Island. Hd will inspect special institutions, and will conduct meetings at Dunedin) Queenstown, Nightcaps, Riverton, and Invercargill. . : Flight Sergeant Arthur Godfrey Ben 4 nett. R.N.Z.A.F., one of those who losj their lives when a Liberator bombej dived into the sea on fire after sinking a U-boat, was a son of Mr. and Mrs) J. A. Bennett, 152 Russell Terracej Wellington. He was born in Melbourne in 1913 and came to New Zealand with his parents in the following year* Most of his life,was spent in the Hutt Valley, where he was weir known. H«l was an enthusiastic airman arid gained his pilot's licence under tire late Flying Officer Keith Johnson at the. Hood aerodrome in 1936. For a few years prior to joining the R.N.Z.A.F. he was employed at the Pord factory, Petonei Three of' his brothers are overseas) The action in which he lost his life was that for which Flying Officer L. A. Trigg was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross..' _--__,