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Grey River Argus, 23 July 1942, Page 4

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Corporal D. Wise left for Christ* church last evening.

Mr. A. Todd left last evening for Christchurch.

Mr. S. Woodbury left for Christ* church last evening.

Mr D. Ogilvie left by last even* ing’s rail par to Christchurvn.

Mr. W. Preddv was a passenger by last evening’s rail car to Christchurch. >

Lieutenant W. E. Bowes, the England and Yorkshire fast bo.wler, who was reported missing in the Middle East, has now been reporita as a German prisoner according to a London cablegram.

Mr. J. Connor, storeman of the Railway Department < Greymouth, leaves shortly on transfer to Dunedin. He will be replaced bv Mr. F, C. Dyett of Lyttleton. Mr. J. D. Murray (Labour) has been returned unopposed in the byelection for tne Spennymoor Division of Durham, where the Labour M.P., Mr. J. Batey, had resigned, states a London message.

The death has occurred of Mr, Thomas William Lewis, of Christchurch. chairman of directors of the Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Company, Ltd. Mr. Lewis was born in Lyttelton in 1872.

Mr. D. S. Kennedy, Greymouth Harbour Board Engineer, has been discharged from the Grey River Hospital, where he was recuperating after an accident.

The marriage took place on June 22nd of Miss Esmie Miriam Charles, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Charles, of Greymouth, and Mr. Douglas King, second son of Mr. and Mrs. King, of Hororata.

The death of Constable. T. M. Condon. gaoler attached to the Nelson Police Station, occurred on Sunday. Constable Condon, who was 58 years of age, leaves a widow, one daughter, and .two sons, one of whom is Constable P. Condon, of Westport.

A motion of sympathy with Lance Sergeant N. R. Langbein, formerly assistant engineer of the Grey Electric Power Board, who was recently wounded in action and whose father recently died, was carried at last evening’s meeting of the board

A cable from Washington states Admiral Leahy (former U.S. Ambassador to France) has been appointed Chief of Staff t 0 President Roosevelt, as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. This appointment apparently gives Admiral Leahy precedence over other chiefs of staff.