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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 December 1939, Page 6

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Mr H. Taylor, of Masterton, has been on a visit to Hastings. The Misses Daken have returned to Masterton from a trip to England. Mr A-. W. McKenzie has been appointed secretary of the No 2 Workers Mutual Benefit Building Society. Guests recently at the Price of Wales Hotel, Masterton. were Messrs L. Irwin (Auckland.), L. Broad (Trentham), G. Dean, Hickey, H. McLean. Mr and Mrs Paku and Mr Himona, Homewood, East Coast, stayed recently at the Prince of Wales Hotel. Masterton.

Mr R. I. Taylor, a son of Mr W. Taylor, Trade Commissioner for New Zealand in Sydney, and an old boy of Rongotai College, Wellington, has passed the examinations for his Bachelor of Veterinary Science degree. He is a student at Sydney University. The Minister of Education. Mr Fraser. has left England for New Zealand after discussing questions relating to the war with the Imperial authorities. Addressing a gathering of pupils of the Education Department's correspondence school and their parents at an afternoon tea reception in their honour yesterday, the Minister of Finance. Ml’ Nash, said he had received a cable from Mr Fraser that day and that the latter was now on his way back to the Dominion. It was announced yesterday by the Minister of Defence. Mr Jones, that the Government had made available the services of Commodore J. W. Rivett-Carnac. D.S.C., H.M.S. Leander, to the Imperial Government, by appointing Commodore H. E. Horan. D.S.C. (Ist Naval Member), to command the New Zealand Squadron, in addition to carrying out his Naval Board duties. Commodore Horan will take command on or about January 1.

On St Thomas's Day, December 21 next, the former Anglican Bishop of Wellington, the Rt Rev Dr T. H. Sprott, 0.8. E., will celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. This occasion was marked at the welcome extended by the clergy and laity of the diocese yesterday to the Bishop of Wellington, the Rt Rev H. St Barbe Holland, on his return from a visit to England. The Vicar-General, the Ven Archdeacon W. Bullock, who presided, announced the forthcoming jubilee of Bishop Sprolt's ordination, and the Rev Canon A W. Payne made a presentation of the book, “Through Ninety Years." the story of the Williams family and the early New Zealand Church.