PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10515, 3 January 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

15r. Dunn, on Pongaroa, was m»r- ---: ried recently in the South Island. Mr and Mrs W. Thompson left Eketahunaon Monday for Tauranga. The Prime Minister leaves Welling-. s for ■ itihe South • tliis evening. r Mr W. A. Veich, M.P. for Wangar ' nui, has resigned the Presidency of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, because the rules provide that the President must be a member of the railway service. Mr J. B. Thoihpson, wlro hasjbefn appointed auctioneer for Messrs Dal- ■ gety and Co., arrived in Masterton ".yesterday. Mr Greenwood, of Dannevirke, and formerly of Eketahuna, lias been appointed manager of Dhe Bank of New South Wales at Ashburton, Mr E. Soal, on t'he staff of the Bank of Australasia, at Ashburton, has been _ transferred to Masterton, and Mr - Jan-is, of Christclvurdh, will replace him at Ashburton. Mr. W. F. Massey, M.P., Leader of the Reform Party, arrived in Wellington on Monday. He will meet prominent members of his party .to-day, . «nd discuss the political situation. Mr Jolhn Gay, a well-known 'citizen of Nelson, died on Friday. He was born in Motueka, and was in his 68th . ;year.

Mr H. D. M. Haszard, F.R.G.S., Chief Draughtsman for the Canterbury Land District, has been appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands and /-f Chief Surveyor for tho Westland Dis-vjpt-rict. N Mr C. A. C. Hardy, the defeated Opposition Whip, is to be entertained bv the Selwyn electors this month, and presented with a testimonial. Mr Massey and other leading members of tihe Reform Party are expected to be present. Mr A. L. Herdimn, M.P., w(ho has been spending a few days at Castlepoint, passed through Masterton yesterday on his return to Wellington, .wfliere he is appearing in t'he tramway case before tihe City Council. Mr Arthur C. Major, of Hastings, is at present a visitor to Masterton. The death occurred at Palmers ton Y- North on Monday of Mr Thomas Rowling, an old settler of the district, at tflie ago of sixty. The deceased was the son of one of the pioneers of the Nelson district.