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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1938, Page 4

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Mr P. Moore, of New York, brother of the Rev Father Moore, is on a visit tc Masterton.

Mr J. Robertson, M.P., and Mrs Robertson left for the north today. They will be absent from Masterton for a fortnight.

. A Press message from .Hokitika announces the death of Mr James King, a stationer, aged 74 years. He had been a borough councillor and had served on the School Committee and the Acclimtisation Society for many years He leaves a widow and a grown-up family. At the Masterton-Opaki Rifle Club’s meeting on Saturday the president, Mr H. H. Mawley, on behalf of the club members, presented a silver coffee jug to Mr D. E. Richards, who has recently been married. Mr Richards expressed his own thanks and those of his wife for the club’s gift, which he appreciated very much.

The Rev Alfred G. Hall, D.D., Ph.D. Toronto, Canada, Director-General ol the World Fellowship of Faith and Service, arrived at Wellington by air from Auckland on Saturday. Dr Hall will leave shortly on a tour of the South Island, after which he will return tc Wellington. He will return to Auckland in December and will sail for America at the end of the year.

.An interested visitor at the Saint Andrew Society’s gathering on Saturday evening was Mrs S. E. Smith, oi New Plymouth, a sister of Mr G. W. Milne of Renall Street. Mrs Smith, who is a member of a Scotswomen’s Club at New Plymouth, was much impressed with the wholly Scottish atmosphere at the Saint Andrew Society gathering. It would appear that her visit may result in an added fillip to things Scottish on her return to New Plymouth. On Friday afternoon last, at the conclusion of duties for the week, the members of the Masterton Borough Council’s outside staff, assembled in Hope Street yards to farewell Mr “Paddy” Buckley, one of their number who, after a period of 27 years’ connection with the Council staff, is retiring. On behalf of his many comrades assembled, Mr C. R. Mabsoh (Borough Engineer) presented Mr Buckley with a tangible token of their esteem, in the shape of a very fine easy chair, and in doing so, also paid a tribute to Mr Buckley for the yeoman service rendered to the Borough by him over a long period of industrious years. The ceremony, 'which was of a social kind, concluded with the drinking of the health of Mr Buckley accompanied by musical honours.