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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1938, Page 4

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The Hon. W. Nash, Minister of Finance, visited Masterton, Eketahuna, Pahiatua and Dannevirke yesterday and will deliver election addresses at Hunterville and Kimbolton today. He will return to Wellington on Saturday and leave again on Sunday night for Whangarei. The Hon. Adam Hamilton, Leader of the Opposition, left Wellington last night by the steamer express for the south. Tonight he will deliver an election address at Christchurch and afterward proceed to his electorate, Wallace, where he expects to be engaged for the next fortnight. The Hon. P. Fraser, Minister of Education, will leave Wellington by tonight’s Limited express for Auckland, where tomorrow afternoon he will open the new Beresford Street' School. He will return south on Monday to fulfil engagements at Levin and Palmerston North, and will leave Wellington again on Friday next on an election tour of the South Island.

Mr Max Brown, formerly of Wanganui, has received an appointment as an assistant to the economic adviser of the Midland Bank, London. Mr Brown, who is 24 years of age, is the son of Mr and Mrs C. Palmer Brown, Wanganui. Mr Brown was educated at Wanganui, and gained a National Scholarship from the Wanganui Collegiate School, and entered the Victoria University College, Wellington. He took honours in economics and won a Sen-, ior New Zealand University l Scholarship in that subject. He was twice nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship, and he was awarded a Branch Scholarship in Economics, and has just finished two years’ study at Cambridge. The funeral of the late Mi’ Joseph Charles Smith, of Te Ore Ore, which took place at the Masterton Cemetery yesterday afternoon, was very largely attended". The Rev E. J. Rich conducted the service at the residence and also at the cemetery. There was a large attendance of returned soldiers. Among the many beautiful wreaths in evidence were those from the following: Masterton Gun Club, officers and members of the Druids’ Lodge, members of the Wairarapa North sub-com-mittee of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, members of the Wairarapa Gun Dog Club, Te Ore Ore Settlement, and pupils, staff and committee of the Te Ore Ore School. The pall-bearers were Messrs C. E. Grey and W. H. Saunders (representing the Masterton Gun Club), E. Fowler and J. Clark (R.S.A.) and W. Dale and W. Hope (Acclimatisation Society). As a last token of remembrance the returned soldiers present filed past the grave and dropped therein a poppy each. i M-intMOi-Kat i .liiMira— —"mi