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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 June 1942, Page 2

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Mr and Mrs J. M. James, Wangaehu, are visiting Auckland. Mrs A. T. Thompson, Upper Plain, has returned from a visit to the South Island.

Miss J. Snelgrove, of Masterton, is spending a holiday at Auckland and is the guest of Mrs King. The Hon. H. T. Armstrong, Minister of Public Works, left Wellington yesterday for the South Island. He will return to Wellington early next week. The death occurred yesterday of Mr Robert Edwin Herron, formerly general manager of the municipal milk department of the Wellington City Corporation, aged 68 years. Mr W. N. Russell, sheep-farmer, Mangatoro, Dannevirke, who is president of the Dannevirke A. and P. Association, has been nominated for a position on the Electoral Committee of the Meat Board. The death occurred recently in Auckland of Mi- Heywood George Vickers. Born in Mauku in 1860, he was baptised by Bishop Selwyn in St Bride’s Church. Due to trouble with the Waikato Maoris his parents went to live in Auckland, where he was one of the original pupils of the Auckland Grammar School, and on moving to Wellington, was among the first boys to attend Wellington College, at its opening in 1874. On leaving school he joined the Customs Department,- which he left to take up farming in the Feilding district. Ten years afterward he returned to the Government service in the Lands and Survey Department, where he remained till 1920.