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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 March 1940, Page 6

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Messrs Rountree (Palmerston North). Stewart (Hastings) and Toxward (Riversdale) were guests at the Hotel Midland. yesterday. The Rt. Rev. G. V. Gerard, Bishop of Waiapu and senior chaplain to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, is io leave New Zealand with the Second Echelon. He will go into camp at Papakura immediately after Easter, and remain there till the time of the departure of the troops. The Hon. W. E. Parry. Minister of Internal Affairs, who visited Masterton today lor the Centennial celebrations, is proceeding to Whakatane for a Maori centennial gathering on Saturday. Mr Parry expects to return to Wellington at the beginning of next week.

The Rev. G. C. Rcay, Hamilton, has been selected to undertake a three months’ evangelical tour of the Dominion which is a part of the centennial plans of the Baptist Union of New Zealand. During his absence the Baptist Church, Hamilton, will be under the charge of the Rev. H. G. Hercus, Sydney. The funeral of the late Mr Frank Siemonek took place in Masterton this morning. There was a representative attendance of mourners. Wreaths were sent by the Waingawa Labourers' Union and others. The pall-bearers, members of the Hibernian Lodge, of which Mr Siemonek was a foundation member, were: —Messrs B. Gill. J. Curry, E. H. Taplin. J. Curley. W McArley and J Connors