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His Honour Mr Justice O'Regan has arrived in Palmerston North to preside at a sitting of the Compensation Court which opened today.
His Honour Mr Justice Johnston will preside at the quarterly sessions of the Supreme Court which open in Palmerston North on April 30. After an illness extending over several months the death has occurred in Ashburton of Mr S. F. Cowan, who was manager of the Ashburton branch iif the Bank of New Zealand. The friends of Mr D. Martin, of' Rangiwahia, will be pleased to know that he has been able to leave the hospital and is at present staying with his daughter, Mrs Mullaney, at No. 511 Church Street. " The Palmerston North High Schools Board of Governors, at a meeting last evening, decided to send a letter to Flight-Lieut, B. A. Titshall. a former evening pupil of the Technical School, congratulating him on his being awarded the D.F.C.
Advice has been received bv Mr and Mrs A. McKay, of 113 Church Street, Palmerston North, that their only son, Pte. L. D. McKay, who was taken prisoner at El Alamein in 1942, has arrived in England and is well. Pte. McKay was in a prisoner-of-war camp in Italy for a period, but when the Italian Government capitulated he; was transferred to Germany. A young Aucklander with a brilliant scholastic record, Lieut. M. W. Speight, aged 1 25, son of Mr and Mrs H. •B. Speight, of Parnell, is reported to have died as a result of wounds received in action in Italy. Lieut. Speight was selected as one of the two New Zealand Rhodes Scholars for 1939, the outbreak of war preventing him from taking immediate advantage of the honour.
The former, well-known English Test cricketer, Wing-Commandcr P. G. Fender, is at present in Auckland. WingCommander Fender, who played for both Sussex and Surrey, had a brilliant career, and he proved one of the best all-round players England has produced. Wing-Commander Fender said he was convinced that but for the present hostilities England would have had in 1940 the best team he had seen in his life.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 119, 19 April 1945, Page 4
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