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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1938, Page 6

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Mr F. Townsend, of the firm of Messrs Townsend and Paul, Wellington, was a week-end visitor to Mastercon. The arrival in London, where he intends to settle, of Sigmund Freud, is reported in a British Official Wireless message. Miss Rose Robinson has been appointed District Cubmaster in succession to Miss E. Dillon, who was farewelled on Saturday. The Rev E. P. Blamires, youth director of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, and Mr N. R. Seddon, a :nember of the church’s youth board, are visiting Melbourne to attend meetings of the Australian Graded Sunday School Lessons Committee. Formerly a well-known mate and master in the coastal shipping trade out of Wellington, Captain William James Pain Manley died on Saturday at the residence of his daughter, Mrs M. F. Yokavitch. Miramar, at the age of 90 years. The death occurred at Wellington recently of Mr John Neill, who was born in Scotland in 1851. He came to New Zealand in the ’seventies and lived with his parents at Palmerston South. Mr Neill was well known in Southland, where he spent the earlier days of his career as a school teacher. He was appointed secretary of the Southland Education Board in 1885. and in 1891 he was appointed to the dual position of secretary and treasurer. In 1905 he was apponted secretary of the Southland High School Board, and he retired in 1912. Mr Neill went to Havelock North for several years after his retirement and later moved to Bluff Hill. Napier. Mr Neill took an active interest in Presbyterian Church affairs, and he was an elder of St Paul's Church. Napier, at the time of his death.