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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 264, 7 October 1942, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr Colin Taylor, of London, is to conduct the examinations for the Royal Academy of Music to be held in Palmerston North this month. Rev. David Calder, New Zealand secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, who has been visiting the city for the annual meeting of tlie Manawatu branch, has been the guest of Mr and Mrs J. Allan, of Russell Street.

The King has approved of the publication of mention in dispatches of T.-Lieutenant H. M. Nees, R.N.Z.N.V.R., in connection with the Dieppe raid. Lieutenant Nees comes from Dunedin. He is a keen yachtsman and went Home under the yachtsman scheme.

The death has occurred of Mr C. D. Scarrow, one of the pioneers of the Waimarino district, at his homo in Raetihi. Mr Scarrow was a son of the late Mr William Scarrow, who arrived on the Petone beach in 1842 and settled- in the Hutt Valley, where Mr C. D. Scarrow was horn. The family moved to the Sandon district in 1866, where they engaged in farming. In 1890 Mr Scarrow married Miss Margaret Isabella McLean, a daughter of Mr Murdo McLean, Waverley. They remained at Sandon for two years and then moved to the Huntorville district, and from thero to the Waintarino district in 1896, taking up hush land on the Valley Road, which they had farmed ever since.