PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr John' 'Pa.vne, M.P., is at pre- j e Bent a visitor to Masterton. > Mr S. Indef, postmaster, leaves v Masterton for his new home in Christ- i] church on Friday next. s •Mir John; Stalhvorthy, ex-M.P. for ® Kaipara, is lying seriously ill at his 1 residence, at Aratapu. ' * iMr and Mrs Harry Price, of Mas- j jterton, leave on a trip to England on I Friday next. < 1 Br "falintine, In«pector-,General of j Hospitals, arrived in Masterton last night, and will attend the meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid this morning. Nurse Nickless, cf ai:d formerly of Greytown, .has beeai appointed to Nurse Gates on the district iiursing staff. She will be i stationed at Eketahuna. The death of Mr J. F. Byrne removes the last of the members of * original Arahura, Road Board (says the Greymouth Star). The late Rt. Hon. R. J. Seddori, M;r J. McWhirter, an ,dottier well-Jinown formea- residents of the West Coast were mefirtbeTs of tlie 'board when, Mr Byrne wae associated with it. 'Mr R. Roake, auctioneer for Ro.?e, ■ Ltd., Dannevirke, and fonnerly of , the Wairai-apa, (received advice of the death of his father, Mr " 'Dick" Roake, "the famous South Berks ' •• as the Berksihre Ohron- | icle called him. Deceased, who was n remarkable man, was 81 years at bhtv tiime of his d'fath. and aai expert cricketed-, billuurdcst, and marksman, even after he had passed tlie allottel ' span. Mrs Ba.ker Gabb, 8.A., who has oc- ( cupied the position off secondary a-a- . sistant in the Pahiatua Disti'ict High School for several years, past, and who is retiring upon superannuation, ' was on .Monday pre»3nted witli a handsome hand-hag from the teach-. * ing staff, and a travelling orug and ' silver-mounted smelling salts bottle 1 'firoro the pupils. Mrs Baker Gabb r leaves slioi-tly on a visit to JBurope. The death ocout i-ed in Masterton on c Monday night of a vejy qld identity, I in the person of Mr Jnmes Gordon. The who had reached the great age of 90 years, was a native P _ of Glasgow, arrived in New Zealand g ih '1892 after foua-months passage. ( He cam© to tlie Wairarapa over forty / years ago, and was foi- years engaged n in farming pursuits on the Upper Plain. He was a Than of strict, integn rity and strong religious convictions. ) • As a preacher of the 'Methodist g Ohurch he rendered most useful ser|.y vioe. He leaves three sons (Messrs r- J. W, Gordon, James Gordon and i; George Goi-don) and three daughters (Mesdames Dflvid Donald, F. S. •k Cress-well and C. Donald). Tlie funw - eral will leave the residence otf Mi 1 •e David Donald for the Masterton i- Cemetery at 2 p.m. to-morrow.