PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 5 December 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr O. O. I'Vist, of Masterton. Las beoTi apnointed to take charge of Mr Roper's business in Martiiiborough. Mr A. Pa line, secretary of the New Zealand Sports 'Protection League, was a visitor to Masterton yesterday. Miss Janet Prosser, of Masterton, was selected for a recall at the Pahiatua competitions yesterday in the recitation for girls under twelve. 1 Mr T. V. Mocre. lias been appointed, a member of the South Wairarapa Hospital Committee in place of Mr B. G. Welch, resigned. Allan M'Dom>-aU. our Rhodes scholar, (states The Wellmctonian) has been elected to an Assistant Lectureship in English Language and Literature at Nottingham University. - Mr Maguire. late captain of , the Martinboroueh Fire Brigade, takes bis departure for Australia in about a week's time. | Messrs G. H. IVrrv and P.. Rayner, of Mastertcn. are to be to act as judges at the next show of the Pahiatua-Akitio A. and P. Association. I Mr Alfred FVvard Pobdnso. of To Rapn, Waikato and fenuerlv of Mangatainokn, was married at, Hamilton last week to Miss Ellen E. Cromwell, of Belper, Derbyshire, England. • Sneaking at the hnnqnot of visiting horosters, in the Club Hotel Ma£ I tfr'ton, last evening Pro A W , Chanman referred to tb- ' splendid work done In- Pro. H. J. AVbite. senior , trustee cf t!,o oistricr, , vllo : ? n . R of the oldest Frresters i n the . Dnmi'Mon. The death is announced of Mrs DevcnnoH. an old and resnected resident, of Kaitawa. who nassed peacefully awav n the residence of her da»H,t.,-. Mrs J. Bnrr Lansdowne vesterdov mr ruins-. T!>» deceased . Inrfv who „-nc r>o rears of aw, leaves a husband and a family of six sons and lour daughters. I Messrs A. H. Herbert nnd T A" firs/time -*»1 and Chnntable Aid Board vesrer''nv. Phov W( , rp W olf. n ,ned bv the c,,. 0 tli-Mi- h-nrr oyneriencp in lo.nl lorlv work «-o"M make t.b« new mem- '"••« " valuable acquisition to the i Hoard.

At the theory of music examination Jield mi Masterton, under the Associated Board of the Royal Academy ofMusic and Itoya] College of Music London, Miss Evelyn Lolicvre, of Mangaramarama, a pupil of St. Bride's Convent. Pahiatua. was sud eessful in the Rudiments of Music examination with 9-1 marks, the possible being 99, and pass 66.'

In replying t0 the toast of the Parliament of New Zealand, at the banquet given last evening to the visiting Foresters at the Club Hotel, Master-' ton ,Mr G. It. Sykes, M.P., said that he hoped the day was not far distant when the Elective Executive would be an established fact in the Dominion, and he was sure there was a majority in the Parliament of New Zealand who favoured a change. Party politics, he said, did much to hinder legislation in present-day 'Parliaments. He was, however, pleased to say that there Avere a few young members in Parliament who refused to be bound by party politics. and he was also pleased to state that be was one of them.