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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1939, Page 4

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Mr J. D. Lewis, an Auckland University College student, who was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship at Christ Church, Oxford, has been awarded the bachelor of arts degree with first class honours. He has accepted .a position on the staff of Victoria College School, Jersey. The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Frank Bowater, arrived in Zurich, where he has been invited to pay a State visit to the Swiss National Exhibition. Entertainments will include a State banquet and a gala performance at the opera, a British Official Wireless message reports. A visit will be made to Unlerageri. where the President of the Swiss Confederation, M. Etter, will meet Sir Frank Bowater’s party.

A native of Wellington and an old boy of Wellington College, Mr Norman Collie, a noted London organist and teacher of music and singing, returned recently after an absence of 25 years to spend a month’s holiday in the Dominion. Mr Collie is organist and music master at Stationers Company School, London, one of the largest secondary schools in the United Kingdom, and is also organist at the church of Stoke Newington, known to Londoners as the “Cathedral of North London.”

The funeral of the late Mr J. McGovern, of Mauriceville, took place yesterday. There was a large and representative attendance. The service at the residence and at the cemetery being conducted by the Rev David McNeur. Wreaths were sent by the following Mauriceville organisations or bodies: School Committee, Mrs Childs and school children. Table Tennis Club, District Garden Circle, Hall Committee. Tennis Club, District Sports Club. Dairy Co staff of Dairy Co, Women’s Institute, the officers and congregation of the Lansdowne Presbyterian Church and the management and staff of the F.C.D. Co Ltd. Pipers played the casket to the hearse and along the drive of the homestead, also through the township of Mauriceville and to the graveside. The lament was played following the interment. The pall-bearers were Messrs D.. D. S.. and I. McGregor, I. Crozier. G. Napier and J. Bannister.