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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 256, 28 October 1937, Page 6

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Mr E. J. Crotty is visiting Wellingi to to-day to represent the Wanganui Rowing Association at the annual ; meeting of the New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association. , Mr. John Smith, pilot-instructor to > the Southland Aero Club for the last seven years, has accepted an appointment as pilot with Coo'k Strait Airways, Limited, and will leave for Nelson in about three weeks. Mr. R. L. Levin, of Feilding, a director of Messrs. Levin and Co., who for some five months has been touring the East, including Japan, returned to New Zealand by the Wanganella yesterday. Mr W. J. Gibson Hughes, president of the Wanganui Employers’ Association, and Mr A. J. Weekes (secretary) are visiting Wellington for the annual conference of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation. Lieutenant-Commander L. Brooks, R.A.N., accompanied by his wife and son, arrived by the Ruahine at Wellington yesterday, from London, en route to Melbourne, to join H.M.A.S. Cerberus, after two and a-half years’ service with the Royal Navy in" English waters. Mr W. A. O’Callaghan, immediate past-president of the North Island Motor Union, has returned to Hawera from a business visit to Sydney. Mr O’Callaghan was absent in Australia during the recent annual conference of the North Island Motor Union at Wanganui. The funeral of the late Mr Leslie Hooper Matthews, of Ngamatapourl, took place at Aramoho Cemetery on Tuesday afternoon. The cortege was very lengthy and comprised settlers from Waitotara Valley, Waverley, and various parts of Wanganui district, also representatives of Wanganui mercantile firms. Numerous floral tributes were received from sympathetic friends. The burial service was conducted by the Rev. W. A. 8001.