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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 June 1938, Page 6

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Messrs G. Petersen (Palmerston North) and Sid Cooper (Wanganui), both ex-residents of Masterton, were visitors 'to town yesterday. A knighthood is conferred on Mr A. C. Davidson, general manager of the Bank of New South Wales, in the Australian Birthday Honours list.

To join the two doctors sent to China some time ago by the Joint Far East Relief Council of the Order of St. John and the Red Cross Society, Drs. T. Watson and G. Maaka, Napier, will leave New Zealand on June 27.

Mr R. M. Brasted, national secretary of the Y.M.C.A., is visiting Masterton today, and will inspect the additions made to the Y.M.C.A. buildings, the work in connection with which is nearing completion. The Hon P. Fraser, Minister of Education, is expected to return to Wellington on June 14. He will give a public address at Dunedin on June 21, when he will reply on behalf of the Government to the speech of the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon Adam Hamilton, at Hamilton on Monday. The Hon W. Nash, Minister of Finance, will leave Wellington for New Plymouth by motor car on June 21. He will officially open the New Plymouth Winter Show that evening, and the following day he will address the delegates attending the national dairy conference. At the conclusion of this address he will return to Wellington. The Australian Birthday Honours list includes a posthumous knighthood (K.8.E.) conferred on the late Mr J. M. Dunningham, as Minister in charge of the 1150th anniversary celebrations. His widow is to assume the title and place to which she would have been entitled had her husband survived.

The death occurred at his residence in Wellington of Mr James Brackenridge, sen. He was born at Lanark. Scotland, in 1853, and came out to New Zealand in the Nelson in 1874. Landing at Port Chalmers he' settled first in Invercargill, and took part in the gold diggings around Naseby, Otago, later starting in business as a baker in Invercargill. He went to Wellington with his family in 1892, and held Government positions for some years, retiring in 1918. In the early days Mr Brackenridge was an enthusiastic volunteer, being battery sergeant-major in the Invercargill artillery. At the age of 10 he started playing bowls at the Thistle Club at Lanark, and was made a member of the club five years later. He was the only surviving foundation member of the Southland Bowling Club, which he founded in 1881, and skipped one of the winning rinks which met the three rinks which came to New Zealand in 1883 from Melbourne. In Wellington he was a member of the Newtown Bowling Club and a former member of the Victoria Bowling Club, and often visited Masterton as a bowler.