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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 March 1939, Page 4

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The Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, Prime Minister, returned to Wellington from Auckland yesterday. The Hon. F. Jones, Minister of Defence, returned to Wellington from Dunedin by aeroplane yesterday. The Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister of Labour, will leave Wellington for Westport by aeroplane today. The Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister of Industries and Commerce, returned to Wellington from the north yesterday. Mr G. Hill, who has been on the staff of Messrs. Levin & Co., Ltd., Masterton, for many years, has been transferred to the firm’s Wellington office. A London cablegram reports that Dr C. A. Smith, lecturer of philosophy, will succeed Mr Maxton as chairman of the British Independent Labour Party.

Senior-Sergeant G. A. Doggett and Mrs. Doggett have left on a motor tour of the North Island. Detective-Ser-geant W. Kane will be in charge at the Masterton Police Station during the Senior-Sergeant’s absence. Dr T. L. Parr, of Lower Hutt, who has been appointed Medical Superintendent at the Masterton Hospital, has with Mrs Parr and family, taken up residence in Lansdowne. Dr Parr will assume his new duties on April 1. Mi- G. McNamara will relinquish his duties as Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department on Friday next. On April 1 he will begin three months’ leave of absence, during which time the director-general-elect, Mr J. G. Young, will assume the duties of the senior position.

Well satisfied with her performances in New Zealand, Miss' Decima Norman, the West Australian athlete, left Auckland last night to join the Awatea in Wellington. Though Miss Norman’s home is in Perth, she is going only as far as Sydney, where she is to enter into business. She intends to have six months’ rest from athletics.

The death occurred in Havelock North in his sixty-fifth year of -Mr Sydney Crompton-Smith, youngest son of the late Mr S. Percy Smith ,a wellknown authority on the history and customs of the Maori. For many years Mr. Sydney Crompton-Smith farmed in Cheviot, North Canterbury, and during his residence in Havelock North he had some experience of fruit growing. He leaves a daughter, Mrs George Bacchus, now in England, and a son, Mr. Percy Crompton-Smith, Havelock North. A sister, Miss Cromp-ton-Smith, and a brother, Mr Septimus Crompton-Smith, live in Havelock North, and another brother, Mr. M. Crompton-Smith, lives in Khandallah, Wellington.

Members of Esperanto clubs in Palmerston North, Wanganui, Masterton. Hutt Valley, Miramar and Wellington, met on Saturday evening in the clubroom of the Wellington Esperanto Club, on the occasion of a presentation to Mr W. H. King, D.8.E.A., who for ten years has beep secretary of the New Zealand Esperanto Association. Mr. W. L. Edmanson, F.8.E.A., said Mr King had been honorary secretary of the association since its formation, and had been obliged to resign at the ninth New Zealand Esperanto Congress held in Wellington at the New Year, because of the increasing responsibilities of his work and his transfer to Masterton. Mr Edmanson presented Mr King with a fountain pen and pencil, and a green calf-skin portfolio with initials in gold. Mi- L. E. Dust, D.8.E.A., a former president of the association, also spoke. Mr King, in reply, thanked Dominion Esperantists for their tokens of appreciation, which, he said, were quite unnecessary. His services had been a labour of love in the interests of international goodwill and of the movement in New Zealand.