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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1939, Page 6

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The Rt Hon M. J. Savage, Prime Minister, will leave Wellington for Auckland on March '2l. Mr J. H. Cunningham, of Masterton, general manager of the W.F.C.A., Ltd., has been on a visit to the South Island. The Hon R. Semple, Minister of Public Works, left Wellington for the South Island by the inter-island ex-, press steamer last night. He will return to Wellington on Tuesday. Mr H. P. Mourant, who has been general secretary of the New Zealand Bank Officers’ Guild for 20 years, and who is shortly to leave on a trip to England, was the guest of the Christchurch section of the guild this week. His succesor/ Mr C. A. R. Brunt, Palmerston North, was also present. The death has occurred in Melbourne of Mrs McLaughlin, wife of Mr James McLaughlin, well-known Melbourne horse-trainer. Mrs McLaughlin, who had resided in Melbourne for three years, leaves a family of two girls and two boys. Mr John Martin Sangster, who died last Sunday at the age of 21 as a result of a fatal motor accident on the Western Hutt Road was the sori of the late Mr John Sangster, farmer, of Barrytown, West Coast, and Mrs Jean Sangster (nee Martin), late of Palmerston North, now of 40 The Crescent, Roseneath. Mr Sangster came on both ’ sides from early settlement families, the Sangster family having been established in Southland and the Martin family in Milton, Otago, as early as 1840. He was born in Palmerston North.

To fill the chair of law at Auckland University College, Professor Julius Stone arrived in Auckland yesterday by the. Rangitata with his wife arid child. The chair was formerly held by Mr R. M. Algie. After leaving Oxford in 1928, Professor- Stone went to Leeds University. He later undertook research work at Hull University College. He was electea a Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation and studied at Harvard University. Professor Stone returned to Leeds University two years ago, whence he was appointed to Auckland.

“I am here in fulfilment of a promise I made to myself 35 years ago,” said Sir Harry Twyford, former Lord Mayor of London, who arrived in Auckland by the Rangitata to spend three weeks’ holiday in New Zealand. “That promise is to revisit God’s own country—that is what old Seddon used to call it.” Sir Harry intends to do some snapper fishing, probably in the Marlborough Sounds. For three years till 1904 Sir Harry was an official of the Eastern Exchange Telegraph Company, stationed at Wakapuaka, near Nelson, where the cables formerly came ashore.