SPLENDID SERVICES.
DR. REAKES' RETIREMENT. PRESENTATIONS MADE. (P,y Telegraph.—Press Association.') WELLINGTON, this day. High tributes to the splendid services rendered to the TJepartment of Agriculture and the farming industry of the Dominion as a whole, over a long period of years, by the retiring DirectorGeneral of Agriculture, Dr. G. .T. Reakes, who relinquished oflice yesterday, were paid by the Minister of Agriculture, the ITon .W. Lee Martin, and other speakers at a gathering of members of the Department called to bid farewell to Dr. and Mrs. Keakes.
Dr. Reakes was presented with a set of veterinary instruments, golf requisites and an armchair, and Mrs. Reakes with a couch and handbag.
A new stained glass window in the Tokotoru Tapu Church of the Holy Trinity, at Poho-o-rawiri (East Coast), was dedicated yesterday by Bishop F. A. Bennett. Bishop of Aotearoa.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 102, 1 May 1936, Page 8
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