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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1939, Page 6

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—— /; y -' Mr and Mrs F. T- Renall, Longbush, have returned from a visit to Rotorua and Paihia. Bay of Islands. The Rev. P. Gladstone Hughes has been appointed moderator of the Auckland Presbytery for the ensuing six months. Mr J. Steel, of the staff of the Carterton branch of the Bank of New Zealand, who has been relieving at Hunterville, has resumed duties again at the Carterton Bank. Mr J. Roberts, Christchurch, NewZealand workers’ representative at the International Labour Conference in Geneva, left England on Saturday for a 20 days’ visit to Russia. Sir George Elliot, formerly chairman of the New Zealand board of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, has been appointed a member of the London board of the ■company. Guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton, include Messrs J. J. O'Leary, Drummond (Wellington), A. Craig (Te Kuiti), Pearson (Palmerston North) and T. H. Taylor (Wanganui). Mr D. C. Webster, who has been Clerk of the Masterton Court for the past year has been promoted to Registrar of the Supreme Court at Timaru, and will be replaced at Masterton by Mr A. W. Whittaker, assistant Clerk of .Court, Wellington. Mr G. B. Beath, lecturer in science in the Dunedin Training College, will leave for England on August 18. This year he was awarded a Carnegie Fellowship in Education by the University of New Zealand, and will study educational movements overseas during the tenure of the fellowship. His headquarters for the year will be the Institute of Education. University of London.

Mr J. E. Galbraith, whose death occurred in Dunedin yesterday, was born in London in 1860, and came to New Zealand in the ship Derwent Water in 1864. At the age of 14, Mr Galbraith, who was educated at the Lyttelton Borough 'School, joined the Railways Department as telegraphist at Lyttelton, and at the age of 17 was appointed stationmaster at Glenavy. He resigned from the department in 1880 to join the permanent forces at Parihaka during the Te Whiti Native outbreak, and shortly afterward joined the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, at Lyttelton. Fifteen years later he was transferred to the position of superinteiftling stevedore for the company at Port Chalmers, and remained in that position till his retirement in 1933. The death occurred in Otaki on Tuesday of Mr Harry Lomas Beauchamp, one of the best known and most respected residents of the Otaki district. The late Mr Beauchamp, who was 62 years of age, was the son of the late Mr and Mrs Arthur Beauchamp and brother of the late Sir Harold Beauchamp. He was born in Wanganui in 1877 and educated at Christ’s College. Christchurch, and at St. Patrick’s College, Wellington. He took up farming at Otaki in 1907. and .continued successfully till about two years ago, when he retired to live at Otaki Railway. The late Mr Beauchamp is survived by his widow, three daughters— Miss G. Beauchamp (Wellington), Mrs E. Ball (Kokotau, Carterton) and Mrs L. Monk (Otaki Railway)—and three sons—Arthur (Wellington), Charles (Patea) and Walter tHautoro). Well-known as a member of the famous 1905 All Blacks. Mr H. D. Thomson, more popularly known as "Mona’ Thomson, died in Wellington yesterday. Born in Wellington, Mr Thomson was educated at the Christchurch Boys High School and Wellington College. He was a son of the late Mr A. B. Thomson. Wellington. In 1897 he joined the engineers’ branch of the Railways Department, and remained there till 1906, when he went Io the Old Age Pensions Department, as District Registrar. He was promoted to undersecretary for immigration in 1920. Mr Thomson held that position till 1932, when he retired after 35 years in the Public Service. Mr Thomson represented Canterbury. Wellington, Wanganui. Taranaki and East Coast. Auckland, North Islaiid and South Island, crowning his football career by becoming one of the famous All Blacks which toured England in 1905.