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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 March 1939, Page 4

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At the annual meeting of the Masterton branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute, held recently, Mr J. W. T. Jones, headmaster of the Lansdowne School, was elected president of the branch for the forthcoming year.

The Rev Father S. R. Moloney, professor of physiology at St Isidore’s College Rome, arrived at Auckland on Monday by the Monterey from Sydney, accompanied by the Rev Fathers H. Doyle, Scotland, and D. Nolan, Sydney. All members of the Franciscan Order, they have been appointed delegates to pay one of the regular visits to the New Zealand Diocese. They will stay two weeks in New Zealand.

Delegates to the biennial conference of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants yesterday re-eleqfed Mi S W. Gasper (Hillside Workshops) as vice-president. Mr Gasper has been vice-president for the past two years and was acting-president during the absence of the president, Mr E. J. Dash, when the latter attended the 1.L.0. conference in Geneva in 1937. The conference concluded yesterday after a record session extending over three weeks.

The Prime Minister, the Rt Hon M. J. Savage, who celebrated his 67th birthday yesterday, received hundreds of congratulatory telegrams from all parts of New Zealand. At 5 o’clock an informal party in honour of Mr Savage was held in Parliament Buildings. Among those present were Minister of the Crown, heads of Government departments. and members of the secretarial corps. The health of the Prime Minister was proposed by the Minister of Finance, the Hon W. Nash, who apologised for the unavoidable absence of the Deputy-Leader of the Government, the Hon P. Fraser.