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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1943, Page 2

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Miss Downward, Lansdowne, is visiting Gisborne. Mrs J. Macßae, “Weraiti,” is visiting Christchurch. Miss McKay, Cole Street, Masterton, is on a visit to the South Island. Mr and Mrs Brosnahan, Gisborne, are staying with Mrs Hart, Lansdowne. Mrs A. P. Bennett, Essex Street, Masterton, is the guest of Lady Ransom, Dannevirke. The Hon J. G. Barclay, Minister of Marketing, left Wellington last night for Auckland. Mr J. Robertson, M.P., returned to Masterton this morning after visiting Auckland and the Waikato district. Among appointments announced in connection with the clergy of the Catholic Church to become effective today are the following: Rev John Summers, to be assistant priest at Lower Hutt; the Rev Bernard Tottman, to be assistant priest at Thorndon (Sacred Heart) the Rev James Buist, to be assistant priest at Petone; the Rev Vincent J. McGlone, parish priest, Carterton; the Rev Leo O’Connor, assistant priest, Kilbirnie. Old girls of the Archerfield Boarding School at Dunedin will learn with regret of the death, in her eighty-sixth year, of its founder, Mrs Sarah Nisbet. She went to Dunedin from Brisbane in 1910 with her husband, Dr Thomas Nisbet, D.D. He was the minister at First Church, and after his death in 1910 she and her daughter lived at Archerfield, where they took charge of some of the boarders from Girton College. Later, when Girton and Braemar House amalgamated to form Columba College. Mrs Nisbet opened a school of her own at Archerfield.