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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1939, Page 4

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Mr C. C. Cook, The Terrace, Lansdowne, is spending a week in Dunedin. Mr and Mrs J. A. .Wells, of Coradine Street, Masterton, who are members of the Wairarapa Tramping Club, left today for The Hermitage, Mt Cook.. Mr N. Pioss, late manager of tne Bank of New Zealand, Motueka, who recently underwent a serious operation in Wellington, is, with his wife, staying at his brother's, Mr C. C. Ross, Lansdowne.

Guests at the Prince ot Wales Hotel, Masterton, include Messrs G. W. Walker, M. Pearson (Palmerston North), McHugh (Invercargill), H. P. Taylor (Wanganui), G. Grant (Wairoa) and L. G. Drummond (Wellington). Continued progress toward recovery by the Prime Minister, Mr Savage, was reported by the Lewisham Hospital authorities last evening, a Wellington message states. They also stated that the Minister of Labour, Mr Webb, had had a comfortable day.

Sir George Troup’s retirement from the board of the Wellington Investment Trustee and Agency Company, Ltd, was referred to by the chairman, Mr Will Appleton, at the annual meeting in Wellington yesterday. Sir George joined the board in 1925, he said, and was deputy-chairman for many years. Throughout that period he gave a great deal of time to the affairs of the company, and was an exceedingly valuable member of the board. His colleagues particularly regretted that his retirement had been brought about through ill-health. Archbishop O’Shea has received cabled advice from France that the Rt. Rev. Patrick Flynn, D.D.. Bishop of Nevers, has been appointed to represent the French hierarchy at the New Zealand National Eucharistic Congress to be held in Wellington in February. 1940. Bishop Flynn was born in Paris on August 15. 1874, of Irish parents. He was educated in France. He was formerly cure of the great church of Madeleine, in Paris, and was appointed Bishop of Nevers on August 16, 1932. It is considered appropriate that the French hierarchy should be represented at the congress, as the French missionaries were the first fathers to land in New Zealand.

A pioneer settler in South Taranaki, Mr Charles E. Gibson, died at his residence, Mountain Road. Eltham, on Wednesday, at the age of 92 years. Mr Gibson had lived in South Taranaki for 70 years. Born in Chester in 1846. Mr Gibson came lo New Zealand in 1868. and lived in Marton for a short time. He later moved to Paten with his brothers. Mr Gibson took up contracting. surveying, bushfelling, and a flax-planting contract in Kakaramea. Some years later he settled in Normanby. and acquired a Maori leasehold farm on the Mountain Road, which his sons still hold. Mr Gibson was the first secretary of the Normanby Dairy Company, and later o! the Hawera Electric Company, now the South Taranaki Power Board. Bus drivers come and go in all parts, their departure more often than not being unnoticed by those whom they drive daily. This made the citizens' presentation to Mr Fairbrother, a railways bus driver on the Koro Koro run. who is leaving to reside in Masterton, out of the usual run of events. Thepresentation was made by the Mayor of Petone, Mr London, at the quarterly meeting of the Koro Koro Ratcpa\ ers Association. Presenting a locally-made rug and an electric jug to Mr Fail-bro-ther, the Mayor said he must be an exceptional man, as it appeared he had pleased all. ‘ The chairman. Mr G. Glover. Mr S. G. Jones. Councillors J. Huggan and H. H. Fleet and several women members also spoke appreciatively of the services of Mr Fairbrother and the other driver who had been associated with him.