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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1938, Page 4

PERSONAL.

, The following had the honour of being invited to dine with their Excellencies at Government House last night:— Commodore and Mrs Horan and Miss Horan, Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs F. Montgomery Spencer, Mr and Mrs T. Jordan (Masterton), Mr and Mrs lan Duncan, Mr and Mrs Guy Williams, Mr and Mrs T. E. Y. Seddon, and Mr and Mrs D. O. Whyte. The resignation after 14 years’ service of the curator of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society’s game farm at Paraparaumu, Mr E. G. Trask, was received wi,th regret by the council of the society on Wednesday night. At a meeting of the sub-committee of the Pahiatua branch of the Farmers’ Union, it was resolved to hold the social function in honour of Mr Hugh Morrison, Masterton, on Saturday evening, July 30, instead of tonight, as originally proposed. The death- of Mr Patrick Hally, one of the three original conciliation commissioners, occurred at Auckland yesterday •at the age of 72, after an illness which lasted several weeks, states an Auckland Press Association telegram. Mr Hally was born and educated in Dunedin. In 1904 he was appointed inspector factories, in which capacity he was given charge of the Department of Labour office. Four years after he became one of the three conciliation commissioners appointed under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1908. 111-health impelled him to retire in 1936. He leaves a wife and two sons, one other’ son having been killed during the war.