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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 241, 12 October 1931, Page 6

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Mr. and Mrs. J. Morrison are paying a visit to Te Awamutu. Mr. Arthur Marshall, journalist, for many years on the Otago Daily Tinies staff, died on Saturday morning, aged 53. Mr. S. Annabell, of Wanganui, was elected an Associate-Fellow of the Institue of Highway Engineers at a recent meeting of the Council of Curators held at Cambridge, England. The Death of Mr. George Johnson, of Lumsden, for many years a member of the Southland Education Board, and father of Lance Johnson, a former All Black footballer, ig reported from Invercargill. He was aged 77. Guests registered at Foster’s Hotel last night were:—Messrs D. R. Claridge (Christchurch), S. L. Moss (Auckland), Mrs. A. T. Hudson (Sydney), G. H. Bar. nett (Wellington), Miss M. MacKenzie, Mr. E. B. Vignolcs, Mrs. Lynden Bell (Stratford), Miss M. Nelson (England). Messrs F. Pepper and A. Murnane, president and secretary of the Wanganui Kennel Club, represented Wanganui at the annual conference of the New Zealand Kennel Club, held in conjunction with the Wellington Show, this week. Mr. Pepper was elccte’ to the executive committee for his second term. Mr. W. Marbles, a noted English judge drew record entries for Australia or New Zealand, a total of 1360. The tidings that Dr. Martin Keller, had been shot by a demented patient at the Glendale Sanatorium, Los Angeles, of which institution ho was the Medical Director, came as a distinct shock to many of the older resides of Hikurangi, who remember Dr. Keller as a well-known practitioner in their district in the early part of the present Dr. Keller entered into all the activities of the township and was very generally liked. His wife, Dr. Florence Keller, practised with him at Hikurangi, and also attended consulting rooms in Whangarei