PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10644, 27 May 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

Sir Joseph and Lady Ward are passengers by the.steamer Aiaungf.nui, which sailed from Sydney for Wellington on Saturday evening.

A London cable record;: the death of Sii' Edward Sassoon, M.P.

Mr D. Hehenton has been appointed -organiser for the Farmers Union in the •Wairarapa district.

Mr T. Dwan, of Wellington, -vas a Visitor to Masterton on Saturday. 'Mr Milne, Secretary of tho Wcilington Farmers' Meat Company i« at present on a visit to the Smith Island. " The following were the visitors stay.iti£ at tho Marquis oF Xormanby Hotel (Carterton) during the past -week: — Wellington—Mr and Mrs Sherwood

King.and child, Messrs Brown. Gibson, Cough. Hill, Mason. Meyne. Prydc. > Ritz, Simpson. Summorhayes. \ richland —Messrs Clcphand, Johanson and

Langing. Hastings—Messrs f.farth--sonvand Stewart. Gibson—Mr and Mrs Staggall and Mr Jobson. Napier—-Mi-Thompson. Marton —Mr Gumming. 'Dunedin—Mr Pyrke. Winton —'Mr Healy. Mauriceville —Mr and Mis: 'Rummer. To Horn —Mr Perston. To Who ran —Mr Read} Longbu-di—Mr Nathan. Gladstone—Mr Cooper. Martin borough—Messrs Baird and H.-witt. Tho report circulated that Mr C. Heald (late, stationmaster at Carterton), "who left on a trip to the Old Country some months ago, had hooked' his passage by the Titanic fortunately jA, proves to bo without foundation. Mr. Heald was in the north of Ttaly at tho ' time of tho Titanic; disaster. At tho breaking iip-of tho Greytown District High School on Friday the assistant teachers and pupils presented Mr A. B. Charters with a writing desk, and the committee and friends gave him a purse of sovereigns with -which to purchase some memento of his five years' service to the iciioo'. '"The'.Mayor made the presontaiiuii, in tho presence of the scholars : ; ,id a large number of friends. Miss E. Chapman, who fo>- v.h'j oast five years has been sole teacher of the Whareama school, and is leavr >7 tho district to take up a. position at Koputaroa school (Manawatu district,), was. the recipient of a presentation by the . schoolchildren on Friday,last,, .which took the form or a handsome 'ewelcase, suitably inscribed. A nloasinpr ceremony took place a:; tho .offices of Messrs Dalgety and Co.. Ltd., Masterton.. when the staff met together to bid farewell to Mr G. W.. Arlidge, who has been promoted to the firm's Wellington office. The manager (Mr J. B. Moodie) expressed regret at losing/ the services of Mr Arlidge. who bad been on + hr. staff for upwards of six years, and had been earnest, painstaking, and efficient in the performance of his duties. i hey would all he glad to know, that th» transfer meant promotion. 'On hehalf of tho staff he asked Mr Ailklge to accept a small token of their esteem •and respect in the shape of a. commodious suit case. Other members of the staff endorsed the remarks of the previous speaker, and the recipient sAut-aibly responded.