PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10583, 14 March 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr R. B. Clark, of Napier, superintendent of tbo Colonial MutuaL Life Insurance Company, is at present on a visit to Masterton, Mrs Rattray, a very old resident of Ashburton, died on .Sunday evening last at the great age of 94 years. Mr R. W, .Robson, .who has been, editor of the ;Wairarapa Daily Times for some- months past, 1 ;nW;receiv©d.''tHe. appointment of manager of the'Timaru Di*. McKay, of. Greymouth, -who i-has; a. sjtaHftr vacation in, the Waii'arapa",* left yesterday'on"liis return to the South Island. Mr C. L. Stork has been elected delegate from the Forty-Mile Bush Athletic Unions to the Wairarapa centre. Mr J. R, Mackay, engineer to "the Stratford County Council, died on Tuesday evening. The deceased, who was only thirty-four years of age, was a well-known figure in Stratford, where he was also secretary" of the Racing Club there. He had been in indifferent health for about two months.

Constable Dunphy returned to Masterton yesterday, after a most .enjoyable, trip to Sydney. Mr Hector Fairbrother, for the last nine years on the staff of the Wairarapa Farmers' Co operative Association, Ltd., Carterton branch, left Carterton on Tuesday for Wellington, whither he has been transferred. Before leaving on Saturday the staff 'presented him with a sifver-moiioited umbrella as a token, of the esteem in which lie was held. Dr and Mrs Palmer were entertained by the residents of Featherston on Tuesday evening, prior to their departure for the Old Country. flie Earl of Moreton, who is expected in New Zealand this week, intends putting in a few days deer-stalking in the Wairarapa. The death has .occurred at Auckland of Mr EC. Gold-Smith, who three months ago retired from the post of Commissioner of Crown Lands m Auckland. The Rev. A. Moßean has been appointed to the charge of the Methodist Church at Eketabmia, and the Rev. J. J. Pendray to Pahiatua. Mr J. D..Heagerty will probably.be a candidate for the Mayoralty of Grey- ' town-this year.