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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 268, 13 November 1942, Page 4

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MINISTERIAL The Minister of Industries and Commerce, Hon. D. G. Sullivan, who was to have addressed the annual conference in Wanganui yesterday of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand, telegraphed the president, Captain S. Holm (Wellington), stating that he regretted the circumstances which had necessitated this engagement being cancelled. Mr. Sullivan attended the funeral in Christchurch yesterday of the Hon. H. T. Armstrong. Mr. Ivan Davidson, of Murray, Roberts and Co., Ltd., has been elected chairman of the Wanganui Woolbrokers’ Association for the ensuing year. Mr. S. J. Harris, whose wife died recently, was given a vote of sympathy at the monthly meeting of the Wanganui-Rangitikei - Electric Power Board yesterday. Mr. A. M. Ryan, Taihape, a member of the Wanganui-Rangitikei Electric Power Board, whose son is reported missing and believed killed in air operations, was given a vote of sympathy at the monthly meeting of the board yesterday. Professor H. Belshaw, Professor of Economics and Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, Auckland University College, visited Wanganui yesterday for the annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand. He addressed delegates on problems of post-war reconstruction. Violet Vanbrugh (Mrs. Arthur Bourchier)’ the distinguished English actress, is dead, states a London cable. Educated in England, France and Germany, she went on the stage under Miss Sarah Thorne and won immediate success. From 1901 onwards Violet Vanbrugh graced the English stage in a wide range of plays. She played a four months season in Australia in 1935. Her husband predeceased her in 1927. Warrant Officer J. T. R Bell, N.8.E., of New Plymouth, former mourned instructor to the Queen Alexandra Mounted Rifles Regiment from Opunake to Okau, is to retire for health reasons after 30 years’ military service with the New Zealand permanent staff. He has been granted three months’ retiring leave. On the outbreak of the Boer War he joined the Queensland Imperial Bushman and went to South Africa as a sergeant, returning to Queensland in 1902. The same year he came to New Zealand and settled at Wellington, where he at once became actively identified with the Dominion Scouts, a mounted unit and later with the Heretaunga, Mounted Rifles, with which he was associated until he joined the NewZealand permanent staff in 1912. He was then posted to Waverley as mounted instructor. In 1914 he went overseas with the Main Body as a member of the Wellington Mounted Rifles and saw service in Egypt and France, returning to New Zeajand in 1916. He was posted to New Plymouth in 1919. He has served his country under five monarchs, and has been awarded a number of medals, including the Boer and Great War medals, Empire Medal, 18-year long service and M.S.M. 21-years’ service. He was among recipients of New Year honours in 1941 when he was awarded the distinction of Membqr of the Order of the British Empire.