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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 228, 14 February 1913, Page 4

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rt» Mr. 11. J. Greenslade, M.P., lias purchased the Te Aroha Alail. , A London cablegram-slates that Doctor Adeny, chairman of the Congregational Union, will shortly visit Australia. Mr. W. McLean, secretary of the Bonillnin Freehold Petroleum Company, will he in -New Plymouth at the end of the week. Mr. M. J. Reardon, secretary of the .Slaughtermen's Union, was in Waitara on Wednesday and Xew Plymouth yesterday."" Eulogistic references lo the unselfish and valued labors of the Rev. William' Oittos, who at eighty-three years of age, has just laid down the duties of superintendent of Methodist Maori Missions, were made by the Rev. ('. H. Garland in his speech at the Methodist gathering in the Wellington Town Hall on Wednesday night. Mr. Garland deebired his conviction that if (he statesmen of thirty years ago were still alive to-day William' Gittos" would not be allowed to go into retirement without some State recognition of what he had done. (Applause). There had been times when hostile tribes all ready for war had quietly gone away at the gentle command of the veteran missionary, while the settlers in the Waikato lived for years in security and peace because they knew that he'was moving about and using his niana on their behalf. , ( Over a long period _ of years, and often amid much suffering, he had proved himself a true hero of the Church and the Bominion.—Times.