PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 30 May 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

His Excellency the Governor has accepted the office of patron of the New Zealand Eugby Union.

Mr J. B. McKenzie was last evening elected chairman of the Wairarapa Caledonian Society's Pipe Band Committee. i - /

Mr G. Hawley, who has for somje yeaig been secretary of the •Pahaa.tua Racing Club, has resigned from that position.' ' Mr W. H. Cracknell, stationmaster at Farndon, has been appointed Hawke's Bay delegate at the conference of railwaymeni to be held at Dunedin next month. No representative i s being sent from Master ton. Mr Dave M; Williams, advance re? presentative of "The Dandies," was in Masterton yesterday, arranging for the appearance of the. company in the Masterton Town Hall on Friday and Saturday of next week. A memorial service was held in St. Paul's Cathedral, Wellington, in memory of Roy H. Dean, who was killed in the motor accident at Dannevirke. Deceased spent a number of months in Masterton a year or so ago, and during that time made many friends.

A Press Association message states that Mr Bernard S. Page, organist to the Carmelite Church, Kensington, London, was last night appointed city organist for Wellington from eightysix applicants. The death took place in Sydney on Tuesday of M. Chambosier, husband of Miss Docy Stewart, sister of Miss Nellie Stewart and Mr Richard Stewart, of the J. C. Williamson firm. Pneumonia was the cause of death.

The death occurred on Tuesday of a very old ivsldant of Sanson, in the person of Mrs Ellen Ooucher. She had reached..the great age of eighty, years, and was well-known and much respected throughout the district.. The golden wedding of Mr and Mrs Thomas R-dwood, of Blenheim, was celebrated a few days ago, and was attended W the idicitations of a large number of friends, reports the Express. Among the guests at the gathering were .his Grace Archbishop Redwood, Mr H. D. Vavasour, Mr and Mrs lan Johnston, and many others. Mr T. Redwood married Miss C. E. Grimstone m May, 1863, and has five sons and seven daughters. The former was born in Staffordshire, England, in 1833, and as the third son of the late Mr Henry Redwood, a pioneer o- historic memory. Mr T. Redwood came to New Zealand with his parents in 1842, and completed his education, at Nelson. He went to the Wairau with a flock of sheep in 1848. Subsequently he managed the' Bank House station, for his father, who leased the property from Dr Munro. For 23 years Mr Redwood o>vned and lived on the Burleigh estate, near dlenheim, and afterwards farmed "Woodburne," near Renwicktown, retiring in 1900 on being incapacitated by an accident. w;Ts a member oi the Provmcia Council Executive, and of other local bodies.