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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 117, 21 May 1942, Page 4

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Mi'. W. Craig, president of the Wanganu Agricultural ana x asiorai Association, was elected cnairman o± tm Westiri; District Council ol the Roya. Agricultural Society of New Zealand at the annual meeting in Wanganui yesterday. Mr. A. R. Donaldson, Wanganui was elected honorary secretary. Mr. Richard Neal Carpenter, a resident of Te Puke for the past 27 years, has died at the age of 76 years. 1 Born at Wellington, Mr. Carpenter had been associated with the farming industry for 60 years. After farming at Horowhenua and Tirau. he represented Dalgety and Company, Limited, at Te Kuiti. Sergeant. Bevy Arthur Neill, who was killed in an aircraft accident while training with the R.N.Z.A.F. in Scotland, was born in Gisborne and ( educated at the Marist Brothers' School. Sergeant Neill was the second son of the late Mr. George A. Neill. He was employed in Auckland before his enlistment with the Air Force, and left New Zealand for Canada in December, 1940. Mr. P. J. Twomey, who has been in the employ of the Christchurch Gas Company for 23 years, retired from its service this week in order to devote liimself wholly to. the work of the lepers at Makogai. Since 1931 he has acted in an honorary capacity as secretary of the Leper Fund, and in that time he has been responsible for the collection of £26,941 for the lepers. In addition 900 cases of goods have been sent to Makogai. Mr. and Mrs. T. Waite, Duncan Street, Wanganui East, have received 1 cabled advice that their son, LeadingNaval Airman Gavin Waite, has received his wings and commission in the Fleet Air Arm. He was educated at St. George's Preparatory School and the Wanganui Collegiate School before attending Victoria University College, Wellington. At the time of his enlistment he was with the Union Steam Ship Company in Wellington. Professor A. G. Davis, a former Auckland University College studenl. has returned to Auckland from the University of Wales to occupy the Chair of Law. Professor Davis graduated as a Bachelor of Laws from the Auckland University in 1922 and Jell New Zealand in 1928. After periods of lecturing at. the London Scnool of Economics and Hull University he was appointed to a Lectureship in the University of Wales, where he has been for the past three years.—Press Association. The death occurred suddenly, at Rotowaro, of an old resident, Mr. Glen Done Forster Mottram, well-known ii. the Huntly district. Mr. Mottram, who was the only son ol Mr. John Mottram, engineer for the Audley 'Lown Council, in Staffordshire, England, was born in Audley on May 24, 1888. Mr. Mottram was employed al. Huntly by the Taupiri Coal Mines, Limited, ai the Ralph's and Extended mines, first as a surveyor and later as a clerk and accountant. When the company opened the Rotomaro mine office in about 1919, Mr. Mottam was employed there as a clerk and accountant, up to the time of his death.