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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21977, 29 December 1936, Page 6

Maintaining that the time had arrived when any man who desired work could find it, and that the council funds now being spent in subsidies to relief workers would be better spent by adding one or two men to the council's fulltime staff, Mr G. Hedge moved at the last meeting of the Te Aroha Borough Council that all subsidies to relief workers be discontinued. Several members strongly supported the motion, and reiterated the statement that "any ablebodied man could now get work." One member argued that to discontinue the subsidies really r'.oant that the men would be forced on to sustenance, as the department would not permit relief work without a subsidy from the local body. He moved as an amendment that action be deferred. Only the mover and one other supported the amendment, and the motion to discontinue subsidies to relief workers was carried. A bridegroom, aged 97 years, and a bride of 61 were married at New Plymouth recently. They were Mr Isaiah McSaveney, who recently returned from abroau, and Mrs Ada Mira Farquhar, a widow who had been married twice before. Mr McSaveney, who in recent years has travelled extensively in Australia and New Guinea, is believed to have substantial property interests in Hawke's Bay and Canterbury. His personal appearance gives no indication of his great age, and he might easily pass for a wellpreserved man of 75. The wedding was celebrated quietly in a private house.