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Wairarapa Age, 19 March 1929, Page 5

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Bennie Osler, South Africa ’« fly-hdW and boro of the tests with New Zealand. has definitely retired from Rugby (football, j F. J. McWhinnie, a pupil of the Waiirarapa High School, haw received a ■cadetship in the Land and Inootmo Tax .Department and left for Wellington yesterday. . Mr Frank Whitton, manager of the Masterton branch of C. Smith, Ltd., .jWaa the recipient recently of a handsame gold watch from the director* of .the firm in recognition of 50 years' service with that firm. I The death occurred yesterday of .Mrs Mary Wilson, of Mastertom, at the age of 82 years. Deceased ww» a native of Wellington and. had resided in Masterton for some years. The funeral Will be private. | The Salvation Army commissionera iWhatmore, of Australia, Hay, of New Zealand, PoUtr-i, Java, and India, are aboard the liner Oronsay, which arrived, at Fremantle yesterday, returning from the meeting of the High Council in England. Mr N. P. of the telegraphic staff of the Master ton Post Office, jwho recently received word of his ap |pointment as telegraphic supervisor at pVaiuku, has now been notified of his appointment as supervisor at Carterton. Mr W. A. Lang, who held that 'position at the latter office, is beusg transferred to Opunake as postmaster Owing to ill health, the Ven. Archdeacon Allan Macdonald Johnson M.A, vicar of St Paul’s Pro-Cathodral, Wellington, has resigned. , Born in the Old Country in 1871, Archdeacon J<oh»> sou graduated nn M.A al Cambridge, and was ordained deacon and priest in I the diocese of Rochester, England, in {1894 and 1895. In 1896 he came to New Zealand to be curate at fit. Peter’s Church, Wellington, and in |1899 was appointed vicar of Grey town, Featherston and Martinborough. He 'became vicar of Masterton in 1905, and vicar of St. Mark’s, Wellington, in 1008. His appointment as vciar W 81. Phaul’s Pro-Cathedral dates from 1911, and in 1919 he was made Archdeacon of Wellington He married a daughter 'of Dr. Tripe, of Wellington. Since '1907, Mr Johnson has been examining ehsplain to the Bishop of Wellington, {and secretary of the Board of Theological Studies. He was a chaplain of the New Zealand Forces.