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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1938, Page 6

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The Hon W. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs, returned to Wellington from the north yesterday. Mr G. W. Morice, of Masterton, has been appointed to the executive of the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Association. Mr R. J. Richards, headmaster of Christ’s College, Christchurch, will leave next week for England, where he intends to remain until the end of the year. The Hon F. Jones, Minister of Defence, will leave Wellington today for the North Auckland district. He will deliver public addresses in Whangarei and Dargaville. Mr H. P. Lawry, who has been stipendiary magistrate for the Masterton district, which included Lower Hutt, Petone and Upper Hutt, for the past three years and a half, has been appointed to succeed Mr J. Logan Stout, S.M., at Palmerston North. The districts have now been rearranged, and Mr Lawry will continue to preside over the Wairarapa courts, working from Palmerston North, where he is to reside.

At last night’s meeting of the Trust Lands Trust, the chairman, Mr J. Macfarlane Laing, thanked the Trustees for their co-operation during the past two years. He also expressed thanks to the staff, the architect (Mr Raymond Lee), and the Press? On behalf of the Trustees, Mr R. Krahagen thanked Mr Laing for his services as chairman, and moved that an appreciation of his good work should be placed on record. The motion was carried by acclamation. Baron Otto Fritz Mayenfield Count von Roon, B.Sc., F.L.S. F.R.G.S., a well-known figure in the community life of Otago and Southland, died recently. His father, General von Roon, was Minister of War and a power behind the German Throne during the Franco-Prussian War. Count von Roon, who lost the power of hearing when an avalanche injured him and swept two of his Heidelberg University friends to death in the Swiss Alps, was well known in New Zealand as a breeder of Jersey cattle, and is stated to have introduced the breed to the southern part of this country.

Mr J. H. Fieldhouse, formerly headmaster of Whatman School, and now headmaster of the Port School, Napier, was elected on Wednesday as a member of the Napier Borough Council. In a field of eighteen candidates, with eleven places to be filled, Mr Fieldhouse came second on the list of those returned, securing 3320 votes, as against 3885 given to the candidate who topped the poll. In recording the results of the council poll, the Hawke’s Bay “Daily Mail” observed that Mr Fieldhouse’s successful election campaign had been a feature of the borough contest. Mr Fieldhouse has been interesting himself actively in the replacement of earthquake-damaged buildings and the improvement and extension in other respects of the amenities of Port Ahuriri.