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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 55, 8 March 1943, Page 4

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VICE-REGAL The Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall. accompanied by Lady Newall, arrived at Auckland on Saturday morning and left for Wellington again last night.—Press Association. Mr. W. Bankes Amery, of the British Government Food Mission, is visiting Auckland. The Hon. Archibald William Blair, Supreme Court Judge, has been appointed president of, the Prisons’ Board, according to the Gazette.

The Hon. Sir Francis Frazer has been appointed to the office of Industrial Efficiency Appeal Authority, according to the Gazette. The Rev. C. K. Crump, of the New Zealand Presbyterian Mission in the New Hebrides, has returned to New Zealand on short furlough. Pilot-Officers William Eric Burgess and Alan Rodger Walker, R.N.Z.A.F., Wanganui, have been promoted to the rank of flying-officers temporary, according to the New Zealand Gazette.

Second-Lieutenant J. B. Cotterill, M.P. for Wanganui, who is attending the present session of the House of Representatives, visited Wanganui for the week-end and returns to Wellington to-day.

Dr. Donald Matthews, son of Mr. G. S. Matthews, of Victoria Avenue, Remuera, has joined the Royal Navy with a commission as a surgeon. Surgeon-Lieutenant Matthews gained his medical degree last year at Edinburgh University.

Mr. A. W. Jones, president of the Wanganui East Bowling Club, made reference, during an interval on Saturday afternoon, to the death of Mr. John Wight, a foundation member of the club. He said Mr. Wight had given valued service to the club over a long period of years. As a mark of respect members observed a brief silence.

Dr. Henry Cope Colles, well-known as a musical critic, has died in London, states a cablegram. In 1939 he visited New Zealand and Australia on behalf of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royjl College of Music. He was bofn in 1879 and was educated at the Royal College of Music, Worcester College and Oxford University. Since 1911 he has been musical critic for The Times, London. Sub-Lieutenant D. H. Graham, of the New Zealand naval forces, who is among those honoured by the United States Navy for their part in sinking a submarine in the South Pacific recently, is an old boy of the Wanganui Collegiate School, which he attended from 1932 to 1937. He went to England early in the war under scheme B for naval war service. Lieut. Graham returned to New Zealand last year and was later appointed to the ship in which he was in action. He is a well-known golfer. Sergeant-Pilot W. H. Sloan, R.N.Z.A.F., second son of Mr. S. Sloan and the late Mrs. Sloan, Foxton Road, Levin, and an old boy of the Wanganui Technical College, has been reported missing on air operations. He is 22 years of age and received his primary education at the Poroutawha School. He also attended the Levin District High School, where he matriculated in 1938. He was a very keen sportsman both on the fpotball and athletic fields, winning the Manawatu junior sprint championship in 1938. Before joining the R.N.Z.A.F. he was on the staff of the Department of Agriculture in Wellington.