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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1938, Page 6

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Mr A. E. Prentice, secretary of the Wairarapa Patriotic Association, is on the sick list arid- ‘is confined to his houke." Th'e Hon Adam Hamilton, Leader of the Opposition, who spent the weekend in Invercargill, returned to Wellington yesterday. Some improvement in the condition of the British Prime Minister (Mr Neville Chamberlain), who was lately reported to be undergoing treatment for nasal catarrh, is reported in a British Official Wireless message. Sir Charles Marr, a member of the Federal House of Representatives, and Mr H. Landon Smith, both of Sydney, who are making a business visit to New Zealand as directors of New Zealand Forest Products Ltd, arrived, at Wellington from Auckland yesterday. Masterton Play Readers assembled at the Midland Hotel last evening for supper and to farewell Mr H. R. Thomsonr, who is shortly leaving Masterton. The president, ‘ Mr. H. Mackenzie Douglas, on behalf 'of members, presented Mr Thomson with a book in appreciation of the -valuable services he had rendered to the society in the past. Mr Thomson acknowledged the gift. Several of the overseas delegates to the British Commonwealth Conference, which is to be held in New. South Wales, from September 3 to 17, will pay visits to New Zealand. The Marquess of Lothian, who will fly from England to Australia to attend the conference, intends to visit New Zealand after the conference in September, when he will spend a fortnight in the country. Lord Lothian is secretary of the Rhodes Trust, a position he has occupied since 1925. Four of the delegates will arrive at Auckland by the Aorangi on August 22 and will remain in the Dominion for a week before proceeding to Sydney. They will be:—Mr D. J. Sullivan, secretary of the Eire branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association. Mr James Dillon, Deputy-Leader of the Opposition in the Dail. Mr H. M. Dockrell, also representing Eire. Mr James Walker, M.P. for Lanark, Motherwell Division, who is a member of the National executive of the British Labour Party and head of the union dealing with the iron and steel industry in Britain.