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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1938, Page 4

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Mr G. W. Hutchinson, district governor of Rotary in New Zealand, visited Dannevirke last evening and was the guest of the Dannevirke Club at its weekly gathering. The Hon. H. T. Armstrong, Minister of Labour, will leave Wellington for the South Island by the inter-island express steamer tomorrow night. He expects to return to Wellington on Saturday. Mr Ira Bridger, of Wellington, Dir-ector-General of the Red Cross Society in New Zealand, is at present visiting the Wairarapa. He is holding organisation meetings in Carterton, Eketahuna and Masterton. ■ The Hon. W. Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, will leave Wellington for the Waikato district by the Limited express tomorrow night. He expects to return to Wellington on Sunday. The Wairarapa Hospital Board decided at its meeting today to write to Mr J. F. Thompson, a member of the board, expressing sympathy with him in his illness and wishing him a speedy restoration to normal health. Dr. W. R. B. Oliver, director of the Dominion Museum, arrived back at Wellington yesteday after a nine months’ trip abroad, during , which he visited museums in the. United States, England, and on the Continent. Dr Alfred G. Hall ,Ph.D„ directorgeneral of the World Fellowship of Faith and Service, who has been conducting a series of meetings in Masterton, left this morning for the South Island, and opens his campaign in Christchurch this evening. The Hon. F. Jones, Acting-Minister of Broadcasting, left Wellington today on his way to Napier to perform the opening ceremony that is to take place in Napier tomorrow night to mark the installation of the new radio transmitter to serve the Hawke’s Bay area. He will return to Wellington on Friday. Al today’s meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board votes of condolence were passed with the relatives of the late Hon A. D. McLeod, Messrs Q. Donald. P. Pike and Mrs S. Thompson. The chairman, Mr H. H. Mawley, said Messrs McLeod and Donald had given a life-time of public and local body service in the Wairarapa and their deaths would be seriously felt. The late Mr Pike was a former member of the board and Mrs Thompson was the mother of Mr J. F. Thompson, a present member of the board.