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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL

The death has occurred of Mr. William Wilkinson. Feilding, one of the town's earliest pioneers, whose association with the building industry made him a familiar figure. He was in his 82nd year, and it was not till several years ago that he retired from business.

The appointment of Mr. W.- L. Newnham, Assistant Engineer-in-Charge of the Public Works Department, as En-gineer-in-Chief and Under-Secretary of the department in succession to Mr. J. Wood, who will retire at the end of the month, was announced on Saturday by the Minister of Public Works. Mr. Armstrong. The death has occurred of Mr. Alfred Hammond, formerly chief detective, says an Auckland Press Association message. He joined the police force in Wellington in 1895. and accompanied the late King George V. and Queen Mary when, they toured the Dominion as the Duke and Duchess of York. He was transferred to the detective office, Auckland, in 1912, remaining there for 20 years before retiring with the rank of chief detective.

The New Zealand Institute of Architects’ gold medal competition for 1940, judged by a jury appointed by the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, has been won by Mr. H. L. Massey, Auckland, for his design of the Wellington Centennial Memorial, which marks the site of the first landing of pioneers at Pctone and takes the form of a hall and bathing sheds. Mr. Massey has been successful in numerous competitions. The Rev. A. T. B. Page, a minister of the Anglican Church, died in Wellington yesterday after a long illness. Ordained in London in 1892. Mr. Page was an associate of King’s College and then served successively at St. Albans. Castle Hedlington; St. Mark’s Portsea; and Peninstone before coming to New Zealand in 1908. He was vicar of Grey-town-Featherston. and part of the Great War period vicar of Manaia. Taranaki. From 1917 to 1920, he was acting-vicar and curate of St. Mark's, 1 Wellington, and from 1922 to 1937 he! was vicar of Miramar-Seatoun-Lvall Bav.

Major Frederick John Brook, whose death in Egypt on February 19 from pneumonia was oll'icially announced on Friday, was, before leaving fur service overseas, headmaster of Beutnont Public School. He gained his commission as second lieutenant in the Otago Hussars in 1924 and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in May, 1925. He was transferred to the Otago Mounted Rilles with the rank of captain in 1929 and in 1934 was promoted to major. He left on overseas service early in 1940 as a captain and, while away, was promoted major. He was a married man with two children and was a most etlicionl and popular ofTieer.