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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2802, 18 November 1931, Page 4

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o Mr W. H. Parry, of the local office of the Public Works Department, who has been in the Thames Hospital for the past week suffering from diphtheria, was reported this morning to be progressing favourably. Fellow employees of Mr G. A. Gibson, of the Paeroa Office of the Public Works Department, assembled-on Saturday morning to bid him farewell prior to his departure for Taumarunui. On behalf of the staff, Mr A. P. Grant, Assistant Engineer, presented him with a fountain pen, a pencil and a tobacco pouch, other speakers being Messrs W. Barclay and W. Smith. Mr C. R. G. Bassett, who for the past three years or so has been manager of the Paeroa branch of the National Bank of New Zealand, left at midday yesterday to take over the management of the Upper Queen Street Auckland branch. On Monday afternoon the staff of the bank assembled to bid him farewell, and the accountant, Mr W. A. Harrington, expressed the sentiments of the staff and presented him with a mechanical pencil as a token of the esteem in which he was held.