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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 126, 30 April 1941, Page 6

PERSONAL.

At the ward conference in Palmerston North, yesterday, of the Dairy Board Messrs J. Boyce, C. G. C. Dernier, J. Devine and S. A. Broadbclt were elected to atteud the board’s Dominion conference.

The death is announced in London of M. Elic Bois, the eminent French journalist, who had been the editor of the Paris Petit Parisienno for 2o years. He went to Britain at the time of the French military collapse and was an ardent worker for the Free French cause, says a British Official Wireless report. Advice that her sou, Sergeant F G. Hindrup, R.N.Z.A.F., has been reported missing, lias been received by his mother, Mrs H. Eyles, Napier. Sergeant Hindrup was horn in Dannevirke and later moved to Napier. Before joining the R.N.Z.A.F. he was employed as a porter at the Napier railway station. —Press Association. ’ The death occurred suddenly yesterday, says an Invercargill Press Association message, of Mr Samuel Gottlieb August, at the age of 60. For many years ho had been a well-known figure in the literary life of the community, specially in his work for the W.E.A. He was organiser of the movement in Invercargill for 28 years. A motion expressing sympathy with the relatives of the late Sir Charles Luke was passed at the monthly executive meeting of the Palmerston North Returned Soldiers’ Association. The president (Mr B. J. Jacobs) stated that Sir Charles Luke’s work on behalf of returned soldiers over a great .numl>er of years would always be gratefully remembered. A very high tribute to Dir H. G. Bagnall (people’s warden) was paid at the annual meeting of parishioners of All Saints’ Church last evening, by Canon G. Y. Woodward, who said that no church warden in the whole Church in the province of New Zealand had a finer record of service than Mr Bagnall had. It had been announced earlier that the Church was now free of debt. Among those recently announced ns wounded in action was Sergeant L. Crawley, Waipawa. According to advice received by his wife, who resides in Waipawa, he has a fractured ankle, and his condition is not regarded as serious. Sergeant Crawley was educated in Otane and worked in Waipawa before his enlistment in September, 1939. He sailed with the second echelon. He is one of five sons of Mr and Mrs L. A. Crawley, Otane. serving in the armed forces.—Press Association.