PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9033, 26 February 1908, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr F. McAllum has been appointed registrar of births, deaths and marriages in the Martinborough district. Mr D. Crewe, of Pahiatua, will leave in April next on a trip to England. The Rev. J. J. Pendray, of Lawrence, Otago, and formerly of Greytown, is at present on a visit to the latter town. The Chief Inspector of Stock for the district (Mr G\ H. Jenkinson) is now on an off Hal visit to Eketahuna. He will be in Masterton to-morrow. At Greytown, on Monday, the Rev. E. T. Wynne-Bond, who is leaving shortly on a trip to England, was entertained at afternoon tea by his parishioners and friends. Mis 3 Kershaw, who has been in the employ of Messrs Pain and Kershaw, of Martinborough, during the past two years, left Martinborough on Monday for the West Coast, where she intends to take up her residence. Captain Hobman will represent the Martinborough Fire Brigade at the twenty-ninth annual Conference of the United Fire Brigades' Association of New Zealand, to be held at Masterton next month. The many friends of Mr Jacob Matthews, of Masterton, one of the oldest settlers in the district, will regret to hear that he is seriously ill, and tha*-, but small hopes are entertained for his recovery. The employees 1 , of the Greytown branch of the W.F.C.A., on Saturday last, presented Mr Lawson, who is taking up duties at the firm's Martinborough branch, with a silver-mount-ed pipe and a pair of hair brushes in a case, as a mark of esteem.