PERSONAL
Advice has been received by Mr A. C. Piper, secretary of the New Zealand Malay Rubber Company, that Mr L. E. White, manager of the company’s plantation at Kelantan, Malaya, is a prisoner of war in Malaya. Mrs White is in Sydney.
Miss Gwen Cooke, of Wharfe street, Oamaru, has received advice that her brother. Mr Ken Cooke, has been posted missing. After leaving the Waitaki Boys’ High School he joined the Royal New Zealand Navy, serving some time on H.M.S. Achilles. Later he joined the Canadian Merchant Marine. The advice now received is that the vessel on which he was serving is long overdue, and it is feared that she is lost.
Mrs W. Robertson, of Usk street, an Oamaru delegate to the Labour Conference, is the guest of Mrs C. C. S. Stewart, M.P., during her stay in Wellington.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25213, 30 April 1943, Page 5
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