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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1938, Page 6

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Mr F. White, of Tane, has left on a trip to India. The Hon P. Fraser, Minister of Health and Education, returned to Wellington today from the south. The Hon R. Semple, Minister of Public Works and Transport, who is visiting the South Island, is expected to return to Wellington on Tuesday morning. ! The Right Rev W. H. Howes, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, is on a visit to Masterton, and will conduct church services at Eketahuna and Lansdowne tomorrow. The Rev Alan A. Brash, M.A., has passed his final examination for B.D. (Edin.), with distinction in theology. Mr Brash is a graduate of the University of Otago, and he will return to New Zealand in September. Mr L. V. Bryant, a master at Waitaki Boys’ High School, has been awarded a Carnegie Educational Fellowship, and will leave New Zealand shortly to go to the University of London. f/or the first part of his journey he will be in charge of a party of New Zealand schoolboys who are to visit Canada. The Rev A. H. Scrivin, a notable returned missionary from the Methodist missions in Papua, and now general secretary of the Foreign mission department of the Methodist Church in New Zealand, is expected to arrive in Masterton tomorrow and take part in the special missionary services in the Methodist Church. Mr E. A. Christie has been nominated as representative of the United Kingdom Manufacturers’ and New Zealand Representatives’ Association on the plumbing committee of the New Zealand Standards Institute. This committee is to consider proposals for standard specifications for plumbing supplies and fittings. Mr Henry Minifie, Fitzherbert Avenue, Wanganui, is celebrating his 100th birthday today. Mr Minifie is as active as many a younger man; he mows his lawn, tends his garden, and does many a job of work around his home. His early life taught him the virtues of hard work, and during 30 years of retirement he has found work one of his greatest pleasures. Mr Minifie believes in hard work and no sport. He was born at Bridgwater, Somerset, England, and came to New Zealand at the age of 26 in the ship Aymor, arriving at Lyttelton after a voyage of 80 days.