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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1938, Page 4

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Dr V. E. Galway, Dunedin city organist, left Auckland on Saturday by the Port Hunter on a visit to London.

Mr James Wylie was re-elected unopposed as president of the Auckland Metropolitan Agricultural and Pastoral Association at the eighty-fifth annual meeting of the association. Archbishop O’Shea, of Wellington, was among the prelates attending Cardinal Hinsley when “God Save the King” was sung at the end of High Mass in Westminster Cathedral, a London cablegram reports. Miss Duncan, who, until her departure for Blenheim last year, had never missed a gathering of the St Andrew Society since its inception, is-at present on a visit to Masterton, and attended the Society’s gathering on Saturday evening.

At the St Andrew Society gathering on Saturday evening regretful reference was made, to the impending departure from Masterton of an enthusiastic member. Mr Donald Milne. Mr Milne has accepted a position with Hays Ltd at Christchurch, and leaves this week to take up his new duties. The death has occurred of Mr Robert Edward Isaacs, aged 83, who was prominent for many years in the business and sporting life of Auckland, says an Auckland Press Association message. Born in Melbourne, Mr Isaacs went to Auckland with his parents in 1864. After leaving school he entered the Post and Telegraph Department, but later resigned and joined the Union Bank of Australia, with which he served in Thames and Kumara. Subsequently he joined his father’s business, but eventually set up in business on his own account as a sharebroker. Later he became . a public accountant and auditor. Mr Isaacs retired from active business about six years ago because of illhealth.