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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1944, Page 2

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Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and Lady Newall left Wellington yesterday afternoon to pay official visits to Cambridge, Morrinsville, Te Aroha and Auckland. Mrs. J. Kay, Gisborne, is staying with her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Robieson, King Edward Street, Lansdowne. Misses Lancaster and Eileen Horner, who have been visiting Masterton, have returned to Wellington. Colonel Charles Walls, who has been for more than three years in Australia, has returned to New Zealand as chief secretary for the Salvation Army, in succession to Colonel A. M. Ebbes. The engagement is announced of Thyra, only daughter of Mr. and the late Mrs. A. W. Rehall, of Masterton, to Frank, twin son of Mr. and the late Mrs. J. Kerr, of Hastings. Mr. and Mrs. James Robertson, of 23 East Avenue, Dunedin, announce the engagement of their eldest daughter, Mollie Mary, to Herbert Hugh Williams, only son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Williams, of Kaiwaiwai. The following are to be recommended by Cabinet to the Governor-General for appointment as members of the Government Railways Industrial Tribunal: Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M. (chairman), Mr. E. Casey (representing the Minister of Railways), Dr. W. B. Sutch (representing the ftailway Service organisations). After 25 years as president of the Palmerston North branch of the R.S.A. Mr. B. J. Jacobs, who is also Dominion president, announced his retirement from the former office at the annual meeting of the branch. The meeting unanimously passed a motion recommending to the new executive that Mr. Jacobs’s services be suitably acknowledged. Mr. A. W. Mewton is the new president.