Though the late Rabbi Y:'.n Stavereii was for maiiy years’ on" the ' I losp.’.tal Hoard, he never- did any canvassing for .votes. .1 le used L> .say: “If the people want me they can have' me.” C6"s'isteully they‘ returned hiui of the-too. of the poll. Oil 'one occasion the • following . poser was nut to.him: , “is the world oettieg better or. .worse?’’ He living Ids' head for a second or two then looked up -ii'id said deliberately: “Tlmt, is a matter which no man ea.'i toll.. r Fbr 'my l part,! .1. think the world .is progressing, and progress makes for development ami ■ betterment.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11126, 8 February 1930, Page 9
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