PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10115, 10 October 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr D. Parton, of the TaihapePost Office staff, and formerly of this town, was a visitor to Masterton on Saturday.

Mr T. W. Kirk, Director of the Biological Division of the Agricultural Department, was in Masterton on Saturday.

Mr. William Smith, a highly respected baker, and a resident of Hokitika for over forty years, died on Saturday, aged 78.

A London cable, received last night, stated that Mr. Pogson, a Dunediuite, and a well-known Oxford scholar, died from heart failure while climbing Mont Blanc.

Mr. a. Hunn has been elected a director of the Workmen's Friend Building Society, to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr. A. C. Major.

Mr and Mrs F. Greenfield, erstwhile residents of this town, are at present on a visit to Masterton, and are staying with Mr and Mrs M. C. O'Connell.

The appointment of Mr. D. Rebellion as canvasser for the Workmen's Friend Building Society has been unanimously approved by the directors.

Mr. J. A. M'Ewen (vice-chairman) and Messrs. J. Shackelton and A. E. Winzenberg have been appointed a Valuation and Select Committee, for the Workmen's Friend Building Society, of which they are directors.

The many friends of Mr C. E. Daniel!, of Masterton, will he pleased to learn that he has sufficiently recovered from his recent severe illness to be able to get about town again.

The Very Rev. Dean McKcnna, of Masterton,' who has been taking_ a course of salt water baths at Napier, returned to Masterton on Saturday. His many friends will be pleased to hear that he is much improved in health.

Mr: Devlin, who will adjudicate at the Dunedin band competitions, and Mr. Allen Thompson, of Scott's Ex- | pedition, were passengers by the Moeraki, which sailed from Sydney on Saturday for Wellington. The marriage recently took place in Wellington of Miss Eva Emma Haskell, fifth daughter of Ma-. George Haskell, formerly of Masterton, to Alfred James, eldest son of the late Mr. Charles Craddoek, of the West Coast.

Norman Boon, a well-known young motorist at Palmerston North, and brother of the representative foot-

bailer, aged twenty-one, died rather yesterday. He became,ill '§Mh the'garage on Saturday afternoon '"' : 'i:nd became unconscious. He was taken to the hospital, where ho, died at five o'clock on Sunday morning.