PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24634, 13 July 1943, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Brigadier L. G. Goss left for Wellington' last night. The Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister of Mines, arrived from Wellington yesterday. Mr. James Fletcher, Commissioner of Defence Construction, returned to Wellington last night. Captain M. .1. Bulger, of the United States War Shipping Administration, left for the south last night. LETTER TO MOTHER - PILOT'S PREMONITION LOST ON RISKY PATROL SYDNEY, July i<) Two months after her son, PilotOfficer Hal Dent, of the Koyal Australian Air Force, was reported missing, .Mrs. Henry Dent, of Uose Bay, Sydney, received a letter _ from him saving lie was going on a mission which might end in death. Pilot-Officer Dent was reported missing while on antisubmarine patrol in a Sunderland fly-ing-boat over the Bay of Biscay. Jn his last letter, he wrote: "I hope this letter never reaches you, but I am writing it just in case. 1 am going on a job which has been described as 'important' and entails more risk than usual. I am pleased ■ 1 am going, not because I am one of those brave, foolhardy lads you read about, but far these reasons: —If 1 come through—and there is no reason to suppose I shouldn't—rl will have had some very good experience. If I don't, then you will know I 'bought it' in an offensive action. "Please remember, darling, that I volunteered, not only for the cause of all free people, but also as a Jew, so 1 might add my small effort to aid in the downfall of the Nazi machine. "While 1 treasure my life and all it holds for mo, 1 would like you to know, if f am one of the unlucky ones who does not return, that my passing'on has been painless. Live the future in the knowledge that J. chose this life knowing full well what the future was, and that, if ever I had my choice again, ] shouldn't hesitate in doing the same thing." Pilot-Officer Dent's comrades found the letter among his effects two weeks after he was reported missing, and posted it to his mother. They added: "You can, feel very proud of your son, for he did his job lik-3 a man and for the cause of his homeland." GENERAL ELECTION BEFORE END OF SEPTEMBER (0.C.) GREYMOUTH, Monday "The general election will be held between September 11 and September 30. 1 think I can safely say that," said the Minister of Marine, the Hon. J. O'Brien, to-day. He added that he did not think the election could be held before September 11, while if it was held later than September' Parliament would have to be called together again to provide amending legislaiiou. THE NATIONAL PARTY CANDIDATE APPROVED The Dominion headquarters of the National Party has approved the choice of Mr. H. J. Glasgow, of Onewhero. as the party's official candidate for the Pnglan seat at the general election. Mr. Glasgow is a director of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, and for many years he has taken an active part in local body work.

THE GREY LYNIT SEAT 5 ! || LABOUR PARTY BALLOT j- Five names have been submitted tor .1 the selection of the official Labour [ 1 Party candidate for Grey Lynn at the „ ] general election.. They are:—Mis. E _ Hanis, of Wellington; Mr. F. Hai-kett. 3 ! chairman of the Auckland Reiiabiiita- . ! tion Committee; Mr. P. Richardson, j president, and Mr. J. Sayegh, vicepresident, of the Auckland Labour Representation Committee; Mr. J. A. \V. Stead, secretary of the Auckland Fire Brigade Employees' Union. Those nominated will address a meeting of Labour Party branches and affiliations in the Grey Lynn Library to-morrow evening, and the candidate will later be 1 chosen by postal ballot. :. CONTEST FOR FRANKLI2J THE LABOUR CANDIDATE ! The selection of Mr. Alien Best, ! farmer, of Bombay, as the official Labour candidate lor the Franklin ' seat, is announced. Ihe sitting member is Mr. J. N. Massev. Mr. Best is a well-known farmer and ' has resided in the district for 34 years. He has always taken a keen interest ; in local affairs, especially farming. He • has represented his sub-province at the . Auckland Provincial Conference of the New Zealand Farmers' Union. He is a past president and a present executive member of the Franklin Agricultural, and Pastoral Association, and a member of the Auckland District Primary Production Council. Mr. Best has heen chairman of the Bombay School Committee for the past 20 'years. He lias five sons, four having been in the forces and one having made the supreme sacrifice. ROTARY CLUB ADDRESS Before Pearl Harbour very few people outside official circles knew anv>hing of the Gilbert and Ellire Islands, ' said Captain F. G. L. Hoiland, of the Colonial Service, hi an address to the Auckland Rotary Club yesterday. Even the map makers were unconsciously contemptuous and inserted a few dots, more or less haphazardly, to mark the various islands. I he war had changed this to some extent because the Gilbert Islands, being next to the Marshall Islands, which had been a Japanese possession since the last war. were one of the first- points lot the enemy offensive in December, • | .1941. Ihe Gilbert and Elisee colonv was ! not the most remote unit of the British Empire, but was also the most scattered. Ocean Island, famous for its phosphates, was the headquarters of the colony. AMBULANCE STATION (0.c.) Hamilton, Monday A new addition to St. John's ambulance station, to lie used for lectures and instruction in first-aid. was officially opened by the Mayor. .Mr. H. 1). C aro, yesterday. The building measures oOit. by 20!t. and lias been erected at little cost and largely by voluntary labour. DOCTOR'S £145.298 ESTATE MELBOURNE. July 7 Dr. Arthur Edward Syme. formerly of Lilydale, who died on January 27, left an estate valued at £'145,298; comprising £27.310 realty and £117.982 personalty. Dr. Syme, for many years, raced horses under the name of "S. A. Rawdon.'' I ■ rider a will dated September 24. 1941, he appointed his daughter, Kathleen Alice Syme, of Lilydale, journalist, and trls brother, Oswald Julian Syme, of Bolobek, Macedou, grazier, executors and trustees. The estate is divided between Dr. Syme's widow and his four _ daughters—Kathleen Alice Syme, Elaine Dennis, Edith Amy Johnston, and Ursula Margery Mason. MAORI BOY HURT A Maori boy, Henry Taliu, aged nine, son of Mrs, Hazel Talni, of Massev Road. Mangere, suffered concussion and abrasion* when he fell from a van in Massev Road yesterday. He was admitted to the Auckland Hospital and his condition last night was serious.