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Mir Thomas Moss, lately/chairman of the Eketahuna County Council, who has been on a visit to the Old Country, returned to Wellington yesterday. With Mrs Mosjs he goes to Eketahuna to-day.
Mr D. Parton, who»is well-known in Masterton, where he was for some years a member of the Post. Office staff, writing from Suva, Fiji, to frierlds here, says that he hopes to be hack in New Zealand at the end of the present year. Mr Barton finds the climate of Fiji trying, but his work there has been very interesting. Mr Parton was sent by the New Zealand Telegraph Department to take over the Marconi installation of wireless telegraph, apparatus for the Government of Fiji, and generally to manage the telephone and telegraph system of the Crown Colony pending a permanent appointment being made from London. '
A Sydney cable states that.the esk tiate of the late Mr F. Lasseter\ head ." ofthefirmof LaiStseter and Co., has been valued for probate at £231,000.
A Nelson telegram (says: —At a well-attended meeting of supporters of Mr-John Graham, M.P., who is retiring from politics, it was decided to present him, with a piece of plate at a public function, in recognition of his eighteen years Parliamentary service.
Mr A. J. Percy, of Te Ore Ore, intended being a candidate for the Te Whiti Riding of the . Masterton County. He mistook the hour .of closing of the nominations, however, and his nomination was thus too late. Mr Percy intends offering himself for the extraordinary vacancy. , Mr G. Shaw, of Wangaehu, who has p beenori a visit to the Old Country, has sailed by the Oorinthic on his return journey.
Sir Joseph Ward's engagements will not allow of his,speaking at Winton next Friday evening as he had intended to do.
Mr A. Crook, S.M., who is relieving Mr L. G. Reid, S.M., while the latter
is acting on the Acclimatisation Comcission, arrived in Masterton yesterday.
Miss Stella Cairns, of Masterton, secured third place in the recitation for girls under sixteen at the Wellington Competitions.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10466, 2 November 1911, Page 5
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