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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 60, 12 March 1942, Page 4

Personal

Lieutenant O. H. Burford is visiting Wanganui on sick leave. Mr. J. P. O. Skogluijd, No. 2 Transport Licensing AmnoiMj, sat in Wanganui yesterday. He left later tor v.cllington. Detective-Sergeant P. Kearney, Auckland, is visiting Wanganui, lie was stationed in Hawera betore going to Auckland two years ago. Count K. WouziCKi, i/Oiisn ConsulGeneral in New Zealand, who has been visiting the refugee Polish settlers in the Inglewood district, wifi return to Wellington to-dy.. Wing-Commander G. A. Nicholls, commandant lor New Zealand lor tne Air Training Corps, loti Wanganui yesterday for Hawera and Sira Hord ' Technical Schools. will visit New Plymouth to-day. Rev. J. H. Datson, St. Lawrence's Church, Aramoho, and Mrs. Da.son have received cabled advice that theii eldest son Eric, who was attached I/* the R.A.F., has been reported missing and is believed to be a prisoner oi war. Dr. Ferdinand Stanley Batciiclar. , F.R.C.S., died in Dunedin yesterday at the age of 69. He had practiset. in Duneain since 1903 and neid an honoured place in tne medical profession throughout New Zealand. In his youth he was a prominent lootoallei and athlete. Messrs. W. S. N. Rennie, S. Newsome, and E. W. F. Gohns, ail of Wangmiui, are' the delegates of the West Coast (North Island), Mastei Bak< is' Assoc.a Jun io inc iianiuu conference of the New Zealanu I'-iaslLT Baker.-,’ Association, to be held in Christchurch on March lb. Sergeant W. J. Brown, at present stationed al the Palmerston North Central Police Station, is under notice ol transLor to take charge at Bulls, succeeding the late Sergeant T. F. Brenchley. Sergeant Brown's successor at Palmerston Nojth is not yet known. The death occurred suddenly on Sunday, oi Mr. Alexander Gregory, l''oxton. He was born in Weyoridge. Cornwall, England, m 1873 and came out to New Zealand with his parents at the age of seven. In 1901 lie married and began farming in the (Jb.au district, 'twenty-five years ago he moved to Moutoa and he remained there until three years ago, waen failing health compelled him Io retire trom his farm and he purchased a home in Foxion. Sergeant-Pilot W. Joyce, Wanganui, has been killed in an aircrait accident in England, according to advice received by his mother, Mrs. A. W. Joyce, who is an inmate of the Wanganui Public Hospital. He was ■ aged 22 years. Sergeant-Pilot Joyce was born in New Plymouth and was educated in Wanganui, being at the Technical College from 1933 to 1937. He was in the Technical College first 1 eleven. After leaving school he was in the Railways Department. He received his air training in Levin and • then in Canada.