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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1939, Page 4

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The Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, Prime Minister, returned to Wellington from Christchurch. on Saturday. Mr J. Sinclair from Camden, New South Wales, is the guest of Mr S. Barker, Pownall Street, Masterton. Mr E. J. Carle, of the Land and Income Tax Department, Wellington, is at present on a visit to Masterton, and is staying with his mother, Mrs Latham, Miriam Street. Mr. P. F. Foote, of the Dental School, Dunedin, has been awarded the senior scholarship in dentistry for 1939 by the executive committee of the University Senate, on the recommendation of the examining board.

Mr. E. Cameron. Wendonside, was elected president of the Southland branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at the provincial conference of the branch. Mr. Camcron succeeds Mr. A. R. Johnston, who has been president for the last two years. The death of Sir Henry Norman, a director of Yorkshire industrial organisations, is reported in a cablegram from London. He was associated with the Ministry of Munitions during the Great War, and later took an active part in radiotelegraphic research.

At the monthly meeting of the Eketahuna County Council, Councillor Perry said he had, on behalf of the council and executive officers, to mark in a tangible manner their chairman’s twenty-fifth year of office. He had great pleasure in asking his acceptance of a tobacco pouch and pipe. They all realised what a difference the able way Mr J. B. Carruthers carried out his leadership made in the affairs of the county and how the friendly feeling round the council table facilitated the work. Mr Carruthers suitably acknowledge the presentation.