MANY GOOD WISHES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 March 1940, Page 6

MANY GOOD WISHES

RECEIVED BY MR SAVAGE ON BIRTHDAY. APPROPRIATE GIFT MADE DY COLLEAGUES. (By Telegraph—Press Asociation.) WELLINGTON. This Day. • Hundreds of telegrams and letters conveying good wishes from all over iho Dominion were received yesterday by the Prime Minister. Mr Savage, on his sixty-eighth birthday. During the morning members of Cabinet in Wellington paid a call, on Mr Savage, at his home in Northland, and expressed their felicitations to him. They also presented him with an appropriate gift. The Minister of Finance. Mr Nash, as senior Minister in Wellington, made the presentation on behalf or his colleagues. He said that. Mr Savage had given a life-long service to the cause of Labour. It had been a splendid service that was an inspiration Io everyone in Hie Labour movement.

Mr Savage expressed his heartl'ell delight, at meeting his colleagues on Hie occasion of his birthday and thanked them for their splendid and unselfish co-operation. He also congratulated them mi tin- manner in which nil of thorn had administered Iho affairs of Iheir respective departments. “I. feel so much better.'' added Mr Savage, "that I hope to be back with you til) in a little while."

The Municipal Association of Now Zealand, silting in conference at Wellington yesterday decided to telegraph ils congratulations to the Prime MinIsler. Mr Savage, on his sixty-eighth birthday.