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Mr. F. R. Picot has returned from Australia.
Mr. C. B. McDougall has - been appointed to till the vacancy on tne Stock-Remedies Registration Board caused by the death of Mr. H. J. S. Rickard. The death has occurred of Mr. Gregor Kempt McGregor, a wellknown resident of Waipu, aged 76. Born in Auckland, Mr. McGregor went to Waipu as a youth. He and a partner took over his father’s blacksmithing and coachbuilding business, but later he sold out and took u.p farming. A former well-known member of the kauri gum trade in Auckland, Mr. Thomas Cnarter, has died at Waimauku at the age of 81. Mr. Charter was actively connected with the Church of England, being a lay reader lor more than 50 years. He had lived in retirement at Waimauku for the past 20 years. The death has occurred, states a London cablegram, of Dr. W. E. Willis, who served with the N.Z.E.F. in the last war and lately practised at Fulham. Dr. Willis was founder and Past Master of the New Zealand Masonic Lodge, London, and was greatly respected in Masonic circles. Mr. Jordan was represented at a cremation by Lieut.-Colonel Lascelles and the New Zealand Lodge by Dr. I. N. Maclean, M. M. Smith, J. Balfour and R. M. Sunley.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 60, 13 March 1943, Page 4
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