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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 October 1939, Page 4

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The Hon W. Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, who has been visiting the Waikato, returned to Wellington by the Limited express yesterday. Visitors to Masterton, who are guests at the Midland Hotel, are Dr F. Mulholland, Messrs J. Boult, P. Lyster, A. Tobart, Wellington; L. Tulloch, Wanganui; J. A. Valentine, Auckland; R. Carty, Nelson.

The Hon Adam Hamilton, Leader of the Opposition, passed through Wellington at the weekend on a short visit to several North Island centres. He spoke last night in Rotorua and tonight will give an address in Hamilton. He is expected back at Wellington on November 8. The secretarial work for the portfolios of education, health and mental hospitals, marine and police, held by the Acting-Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, and which have been temporarily reallocated during his absence in London, will be carried on from Mr Fraser’s office by Mr P. J. G. Smith, private secretary to the Minister of Education.

Guests at the Empire Hotel, Masterton, are Messrs Lollicrat. Hart, F. Jones, Palmerston North; Messrs Wylie, Harcombe, Hipkins, Ellison, Herbert, M. Martin, L. MacCaskill, J. Topp and Keating, Wellington; Mr T. H. Raua, Dunedin; Mr and Mrs Crosbury, L. and R. Crosbury, New Plymouth.

A tribute to the work of the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Hamilton, was paid by Mr C. H. Weston, K.C., Dominion president of the New Zealand National Party, at a meeting of the National Club last night. Mr Hamilton had finished the session with complete success, he said. There was talk—doubtless engineered—that Mr Hamilton was not the leader the party needed, but the session had shown that he was. He had handled Parliamentary representatives of the party with outstanding success and had shown keen political judgment. There was no doubt that he was the best qualified man to lead the National Party. Mr J. L. Climie, elder son of the late Mr J. D. Climie, inspecting surveyor, died suddenly at his residence, Lower Hutt, recently. Mr Climie was born in Lower Hutt in 1882, and lived there all his life. He began his career in an insurance company, but resigned to join the Land and Survey Department, where for 35 years he was a draughtsman and computer. He was an outstanding figure in the athletic field, excelling in many forms of sport, specially golf. As a member of the Hutt Golf Club he won the championship bn five occasions between 1908 and 1920. Mr Climie is survived by a widow, two sons, and a daughter.