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Wairarapa Age, 29 March 1920, Page 5

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The Rev. Dean McKenna left Pahiatua for Wellington on Friday last. Mr R. H. Baillie, of the Bank of New Zealand, Martinborough, is at present in the South Island. Mr A. H. Herbert has been elected president of Chamber, of Commerce for the ensuing year. The death is reported of Mr P J. Dunne, a journalist well known on the West Coast, at the age of fifty-five years. A London cable states that General Bramwell Booth,, of the Salvation Army, has left London for Australia and New Zealand. A London cable states that His Majesty the. King will shortly -visit France, and confer the Military CroBS upon the city of Ypres. . Mr Maurice McGraht, son of the late Mrs McGrath, of Blairlogie Junction, and now a well known racehorse owner in Australia, is at present on a visit to Masterton. Mr David Kennan, an old resident j of the Martinborough district, died in i the Greytown hospital on Friday last, j The deceased, who came from Aus-j tralia* about thirty years ago, was for a considerable period in the employ of Mr Robert McLeod, of Hautotara. | Mr John Christie, an .old settler of i Southland, is dead, aged .98 years. He I was born in Stirlingshire,, Scotland,. and in 1862 he came to New Zealand in the ship Sir George Pollack, ar-i riving at Bluff. Mr Christie began contracting work on his arrival. Later, he worked at Waiklwi, and afterwards was employed at Morton Mains by the Australian and New Zealand Land Company.