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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 210, 18 August 1933, Page 4

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Squadron-Leader G. L. Stedman, Officer Commanding No. 2 (B) Squadron, New Zealand Air Force, has been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-Service JJedal. Miss Hepburn, Waipukurau, has been appointed shortliand-typiste at the District Hospital, Waipukurau, and Miss M. Lourie has teen appointed clerk at Pukeora Sanatorium. Mr F. Melhuish, assistant secretary of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board, i» at present in hospital, and has been granted six weeks’ leave of absence by the board. Mrs J. Huntley Walker has been appointed secretary of the Waipukurau I’lunket Society, vice Mrs B. Mathiasen, who has resigned. A vote of thanks was accorded to Mrs Mathieson for the excellent manner in which she earned out her duties. Miss J. Robertshaw, a cousin of the Rev. N. F. Robertshaw, of Wellington, arrived by the Matnroa from England yesterday. Miss Robertshaw is an authority ou agricultural matters, as she attended Studley College in Warwickshire, where she took courses in dairying and poultry farming, obtaining a diploma for dairying. Brigadier W. C. Cottrill and Mrs. Cottrill, who have been associated with the Salvation Army in Palmerston North since 1931, will celebrate their silver anniversary shortly. Brigadier and Mrs. Cottrill were married in England on August 24, 1908. Brigadier Cottrill joined the Army in Londou and has since seen service in England, South Africa, and New Zealand.