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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 March 1939, Page 4

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The Bishop of Wellington, the Rt. Rev. H. St. Barbe Holland, is reported to be progressing well after an operation in a private hospital earlier in the week.

The friends of Mr and Mrs R. Hadfield, Gladstone, will regret to learn of the death of their second son Simon, which occurred at Gladstone today after a brief illness, at the age of 10 years. The deceased was a member of the Gladstone Cubs. The funeral will take place at 2.30 o’clock tomorrow afternoon.

Officers elected at the biennial conference of the United Ancient Order of Druids of the North Island, which concluded at New Plymouth yesterday, were: —Grand president, Mr H. S. Abel (Wellington); junior past grand president, Mr A. L. Williams (Petone); grand vice-president Mr H. L. Harker (Wairoa); grand guardian, Mr F. Ramsbottom (Patea).

Cabinet has selected the Minister of Lands, Mr F. Langstone, to represent the Government at the twenty-fifth session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva this year. In making this announcement last evening, the Prime Minister, Mr Savage, said the date of the Minister’s departure for Europe had not yet been fixed, but it would be necessary to leave early next month. The Hon R. Semple, Minister of Public Works, will leave Wellington tonight for Christchurch and Dunedin on official business. He will also make an inspection of the Homer Tunnel work. He is to open the new traffic bridge across the Rakaia River tomorrow week ,and on the following Monday will visit Westport to attend a demonstration of land-clearing machinery to be held on the West Coast on March 28. He expects to return to Wellington on the evening of March 29.

Mr P. W. Jackson, accountant of the Commercial Bank of Australia, Ltd., Wellington, for the past 41 years, and formerly manager at Masterton, has received advice from the head office of the bank that he is to go to London via Sydney and Melbourne, to relieve the assistant manager of the bank’s London office who is visiting Australia for several months. It is expected that Mr Jackson will be absent for eight months, and that he will then return to a position in the bank in Australia. He will be accompanied to London by his wife. Mi’ J. L. Stephenson, manager of the bank’s Hamilton branch, Victoria, has b?en appointed to succeed Mr Jackson as accountant in the Wellington office and will arrive in New Zealand at an early date.