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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 96, 24 April 1945, Page 4

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VICE-REGAL. The Governor-General and Lady Newall, attended by Captain the Hon. D. E. A. Winn, returned to Wellington from Nelson yesterday afternoon. Later, at Government House, His Excellency received the Hon. W. Perry, Minister of the Armed Forces and War Co-ordination. The High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Mr. A. W. G. Grantham, and Mrs. Grantham, have arrived at Government House. Mr. S. M. Davis is an inmate of a private hospital in Wanganui. He is making a good recovery ifrom a recent operation. Sister Z. M. Haworth, 2nd. N.Z.E.F., Nursing Service, is to be charge sister (temporary), states the Gazette. She £s a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Haworth, Wanganui. Major H. D. Robertson, of Wanganui, serving overseas with the New Zealand Medical Corps, is promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, states the New Zealand Gazette. Mr. R. C. Hinton, a member of the United Kingdom Food Mission to Australia and New Zealand, is in Wellington for consultations with members of the Government and various meat firms. Warrant Officer S. L. Rodger, Wanganui, has returned from overseas with the recent draft of personnel ■from the Mediterranean theatre. He is a former member of the staff of Levin and Co., Ltd., Wanganui. His wife is Mrs. R. I. Rodger, Wanganui East. Mr. A. J. Brown, formerly an architect and town planner in Auckland, has been appointed chairman of the Town and Country Planning Board of Victoria for a term of live years, says a Press Association message from Melbourne. Mr. Brown has been living in Australia since 1930. Mr. R. E. Walton, Wellington, has recently been appointed a boys’ welfare officer to assist Mr. G. S. Brendon, district child welfare officer of the Wanganui area. Mr. Walton is a returned soldier who has for some time been interested in youth movements. He takes up his new duties on May 1. Captain J. F. Millward, husband of Mrs. L. M. Millward, has returned to Wanganui with personnel from the Mediterranean theatre of war, after lour years overseas. A son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Millward, Captain Millward is a former member of the Wanganui Harbour Board and a member of the firm of C. F. Milliward and Co. Major J. C. White, M.8.E., formerly an associate to the late Mr. Justice Ostler, who left New Zealand with the First Echelon as personal assistant to Gen’eral Sir Bernard Freyberg, has returned to New Zealand. He was accompanied by his wife, formerly Nurse Nora Wild, daughter of Mr. L. J. Wiljl, of Feilding Agricultural High Schqpl. whom he married in Egypt. •Warrant Officer Lou Northover, M.M., Wanganui, who has been overseas for more than four years will return to the city to-day He was reported missing for nearly W.o years but word of his safety was received last year. Warrant Officer Northover is a former senior Rugby player for Wanganui and Old Boys Club, and a representative hooker. His mother is Mrs. I. Northover, Fergusson Street.

The Rev. Frederick J. Parker, Lower Hutt, has been appointed to succeed the Rev. E. B. Chambers in Wanganui, at Trinity Methodist Church. Mr. Parker is senior chaplain of the Methodist Church in New Zealand, and until he left Lower Hutt had been secretary of the Wellington district. A member of the newly formed Lower Hutt Rotary Club, he was welcomed recently to the Wanganui Rotary Club. Mr. Chambers has received an appointment to the Methodist Church, Mt. Edon, Auckland.