PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9586, 4 September 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Drs A. H. Gilrr.er, ti. Pollen, and D. McGavin of .Wellington, Dr Wilson, of Palmerston, and Dr Hosking, of Masterton, have been appointed medical referees under the Workers' Compensation for Accidents Act. The death occurred at Featherston on Thursday of Mr F. Monckton, a well-known and highly respected resident of the Wairarapa The Jate Mr Moncktun came to New Zealand in 1884, and had resided in the Wairarapa district ever since The deceased, who had attained the advanced age of 82 years, leaves a widow and a large tami>y to mourn their loss. Mrs M. Trimble, of Masterton, is a daughter of the deceased gentleman. Mr L. J. Hooper, of Masterton, received word yesterday that his eldest son, Mr C. L. Hooper, has passed with honors his final examination, and is now registered as a Licentiate in Pharmacy for the State of California. His many Masterton friends will.be pleased tu learn of the success of Mr C. L. Hooper in so short a time after his arrival in the States. The performance is all the more creditable when it is mentioned that out of a total of eighty students who sat for the examination only eight passed. Mr E. Greatbatch, late Postmaster at Petone, died at New Plymouth on Thursday. . The late Mr Greatbatch was for over thirty-three years connected with the Post and Telegraph Department, being employed in Auckland alone for a quarter of a century. He was transterred to Petone nine years ago to take charge of the new office built there. He was exceedingly popular, and his death, after a long and painful illness, will be sincerely regretted throughout the district where he was so much respected. One of Wellington's oldest residents passed away yesterday, in' the person of Mrs Wilton, wife of Mr Job Wilton, of Wadestown. Mrs Wilton, whose age was 73, came to New Zealand in the ship London in 1840, and has lived in Wellington and its immediate neighbourhood ever since. She had personal experience of the great earthquakes of 1848 and 1855, and of the hardships endured by the early settlers, and had many interesting stories to tell of them. She is survived by her husband, and leaves a grown-up family of eight sons and three daughters, and forty grandchildren. She was a sister of Messrs J. J. Curtis and Henry Curtis, of Wellington. Another brother was Mr Alfred Curtis, who recently died.