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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1939, Page 6

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Last night Lord and Lady Galway left Wellington for the South Island, where they will undertake a number of official engagements in Dunedin, Queenstown, Oaniaru and Christchurch.

Claiming to have been born in County Donegal. Ireland, on St. Patrick’s Day, 1830, in the reign of William IV., Mr Patrick Lucas Hamilton, who resides a short distance from Pleasant Point (South Canterbury) yesterday celebrated his one hundred and ninth birthday. Centenarians are a rarity these days, and at 109 Mr Hamilton can probably lay claim to being the oldest inhabitant of the Dominion and one of the oldest in the Empire. The Prime Minister, Mr Savage, will leave Wellington for Auckland by ;he Limited express on Tuesday night. He will be accompanied by the Miniser of Industries and Commerce, Mr Sullivan. Three days of next week will bo devoted by Mr Savage and Mr Sullivan to an inspection of manufac.uring industries in Auckland and its suburbs. Mr Savage has an engagement in his own electorate of 'Auckland West this day week. He will leave on his return to Wellington the following night to perform the opening of the Social Security Departmem’s ouilding in Aotea Quay on March 27. A large and representative gathering if settlers attended the funeral of the late Mr Herbert William Dillon, which left the Church of the Good Shepherd, final, for the Tinui cemetery yesterday afternoon. The service was conducted by the Rev Alfred Dobbs, and that of the Foresters’ Lodge at the graveside by Mr J. D. Groves. A large number of wreaths were received. The pall-bearers were members of the Foresters’ Lodge, Court Pioneer, 3388, A.0.F., Bros. S. Schofield. D. H. Speedy, junr., J. G. Groves,' A. J. B. Owen, C. A. McTsaac and W. P. Laing.