PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 October 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr J. B, Emmett, secretary of iM Masterton A. and P. Association, tkk presented the association 'at ifief Hafffce's Bay show. :', ,

Inspectors Fleming and BakeweJlj of the Wellington Education Boards ore at present inspecting the public? schools of Masterton. ./V-. The Professorial Board of Victoria College has decided td nominate Mr F. E. McKenzie, 8.A., as the neiti Rhodes Scholar.—Press Association. Mr and Mrs A. J. Toogood ami Miss JAKce Toogood Arrived i» Featherston on Tuesday nignt;£fte» an enjoyable trip to' Sydney and Mel* bourne. . ; '

The Masterton Competitions Sox ciety has placed on record its appra*; elation of the rendered by Mfc W. Gillespie, who has'-'been secret«igf for the past three years. ' ' •'.? -,: - His Excellency the GoveraofetOrdl.: Liverpool, and Lady Liverpool arrived in Featherston on- Tuesday on a i short, visit. They are the guests oi Mr and Mrs William Barton:

Mr J. T. M. Homsby will conduct the morning service and the Bevl B« L. Thomas the evening service in connection with the fifth anniversary ofi the Congregational Church on Sundagj next.'

Mr H. .S» Moss, as secretary of the> Wairarapa P. arfd A. Society, was pre* sent at the Hawke's Bay Show, witH a yieW to making arrangements fori intending exhibitors at the Cartertba show next week.

Sir William Lever, head oi thft great firm of Lever Bras., Port Sun* light, will shortly pay a visit to HewZealand. It is reported that the! main business of' Sir "William in the Dominion will be the" establish iment oft a large soap factory. at. Petone.

; The death . occurred at' Pal merstort North on Tuesday of Mrs Elizaoetb Beards, wife of Mr Barry Beards, formerly of Carterton.. The deceased arrived in Palmerston ; 33 yeara ago, and she and her husband' were amongst the early pioneers of the, (patriot.

Professor D. N. Picken, of Victoria College (chairman of the National Executive of the Y.M.C.A. in, New Zealand), and Mr A. Varney, General Secretary of the Wellington branch of the Association will, be visitors to Masterton to-day, and will attend the special general meeting of members to be held in the Y.M.C.A. to-night-

A quiet wedding was celebrated'at St. Luke's Church, Greytown, yesterday, the Rev. A. T. B. Page officiating, when Mr Norman Skeet, son of Mr J. Skeet, and well known in football circles, was married to Miss Emily Miller, second daughter of Mr. Chas*. Miller, recently health officer for the district. The bride was given away by her brother-in-law, Mr O. Nix, Misses M. Miller arid <*. Skeet being bridesmaids, and Mr Q, Skeet . best man. .'., ~'. '„.;.„'.. ',>■'., ■.'■,■' ~■'<■■:-'.; ; '.