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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 February 1941, Page 4

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Mr Alex Keith. Masterton. was ap- " pointed assessor for the borough at a meeting of the Masterton Borough Council last night. , The death occurred at Timaru yes- ’ ( terday of Mr Duncan C. Kibblewhite, ; of Temuka. and formerly of Featherston. at the age of 53 years. The funeral will take place at Featherston. ' The late Mr. Kibblewhite had been for : some years manager of the Bank of ‘ Australasia at Featherston, leaving the ’ latter place on transfer to Temuka. Reference to the death of Mr E. Hale, a former member of the MasterI ton Borough Council, was made by the I Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, at last night’s j meeting of the council. Mr Jordan . stated that Mr Hale had represented | the North Ward (Lansdowne) with I him in 1921, serving for two years, | Mr Jordan paid a tribute to the late i Mr Hale’s fine jx?rsonal qualities, re-' 1 ferring to the esteem in which he was I held in the community. It was decided i I to send a letter of sympathy to the re-1 ; la lives. j The death occurred suddenly or. I Monday night of Mr John Murdoch; Fisher, who for the past six years had ■ been Tasmanian Trade Commissioner! in New Zealand, says a Press Association message from Dunedin. Mr Fisher. ’ who was born and educated in Tas-' mania, was 54 years of age. He was) the first Trade Commissioner appoint-] ed by the Tasmanian Government in. this country. Through his endeavours’ \ the Tasmanian court at the recent Centennial Exhibition in Wellington wasj presented to the Dominion. A family record which would be ex-] tremely difficult to surpass is claimed! Iby an 30-year-old resident of Auck- J land. Mr John McCarthy, of Federal ■ Street. A member of a pioneer fam-' ily, Mr McCarthy states that the ages' of all his living brothers and sistersj in New Zealand add up to the impres-1 sive total of 505 years. There are I eight in the family, and their ages range from 68 to 83. Born in Ireland,] Mr McCarthy has had an interesting! career. In 1860 he was brought to I New Zealand at the age of three] weeks. His father was a soldier in . the 14th Light Infantry Regiment.which landed at Auckland. A son of a pioneering New Zealand] family, who were on the West Coast! in the sixties, the second Boman Catholic Bishop of Christchurch, the Rt. Rev. Dr. M. J. Brodie, will next weekend celebrate his silver jubilee. On February 27, 1916. he was consecrated to the diocese of Christchurch by Archbishop Cerretti, then the Papa! Legale to Australia, who later became < Cardinal Cerretti. Bishop Brodie, who] was born in Auckland, was the first; New Zealand-born Catholic bishop in] the Dominion. In his 25 years in the Christchurch diocese —which covers all] of Canterbury and the West Coast.: including and south of Greymouth— I Bishop Brodie has taken the major] share in the expanding of his church's] activities.