PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10673, 20 July 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr R. V. Hooper, late of Masterton, and now of San Franeiseo, has been successful in securing his D.D.S. at Pennsylvania, and has also passed the California State Board examination. Mr Hooper has been singularly successful in his gnd in his latest achievement JiG will lllH'6 the hearty congratulations of a wide circle of friends in Masterton.

Mr C. Ibbetson has resigned his position as secretary of the Masterton branch of the Y.M.C.A.

Mr J. Lomas, Secretary for Labour and Chief Inspector of Factories, will arrive in Masterton by the express today.

An Auckland telegram states that Chief Detective Marsack has been appointed Sub-Inspector at Palmerston North, and Detective-ergt. Mae-. Mahon-has been appointed Chief Detective.

The death is announced of the Rev. T. Bow-man Stephenson, founder and honorary principal of the Children's Home in London.

The death is announced, at the age of 7G, cf the Rev. Henry John Pope, D.D., a well-known Methodist minister, and secretary of the Wesleyan Heme Missions for ten years, and previously for twenty-one years secretary of the Wesleyan Chapel Committee. The friends of Mrs A. Hoar, of Masterton, will be pleased to know that she is making satisfactory progress after undergoing an operation in the Masterton Hospital. A Christchurch telegram states that the jockey Ret-ter, who was injured at Riccarton some tune ago, has regained consciousness and is improving wonderfully.

Mr George Bowman, head jeweller for Mr A. Henderson, Masterton, yesterday received the sad news of the death of bis mother at Napier. Mr Bowman left by the express train for Napier yesterday. .