Diggers' Cobber

NZ Truth, Issue 1181, 19 July 1928, Page 6

Diggers' Cobber

VTOU could walk for months among I the self-boosters and hear no word of Arthur E. Prentice. But turn an ear to the alleys of the halt, the poor and the weary, the men up against it still, after serving m the Great War, and from them you will hear with enthusiasm of Arthur Prentice and his work m Masterton. He was born a Mastertonian and he remains one. His father before him, the late J. P. Prentice, lived m the dis-

trict for 70 years, which is to go back so far as to make the imagination , wobble. At the outbreak of the war Arthur was one of the first to enlist and after Gallipoli he was invalided back. Still: desirous of doing his bit, he accepted m 1917, the position of secretary to the Wairarapa Patriotic Association and ever since he has filled that office with great ability, ably assisting the association m the difficult •«v.r\l-.leiTr>a nnnfrnntlnf it.

Preriuce meets \\iui many sau cases among returned soldiers. A man m his position could, easily offend, but he has the. knack of extracting necessary and intimate details. with rare delicacy. Many are the diggers who have cause to remember the assistance rendered by him. , In addition, A.E.P. is secretary of the Wairarapa R.S.A., an office . he has occupied since 1918.