PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, 26 February 1927, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Wairarapa Hospital JBoard yesterday appointed Dr. W. H. Young, of Carterton, to the honorary staff of the Greytown Hospital, duties to commence at the termination of the financial year.

Mr. L. G. Hill, of Whangarei, has been appointed secretary of the Dunedin Jockey Club out of one hundred applicants from all parts of the Dominion.

Air. Maurice Ralph, general manager for E. J. Gravestock, is at present in Masterton. making arrangements for the coming of Miss Phyllis Lett and her concert party to the Opera House on Tuesday, March 8. Mr. Joseph Lee died at Newcastle, Galway, records a London cablegram. He was a world traveller and was the first European officer living in Fiji. He was intimately acquainted with the habitat of the Maoris.

Air. C. T. Richardson, who succeeds Mr. AV. B. Matheson. as representative of the Eketahuna County on. the Wairarapa Hospital Board, attended his first meeting yesterday and was accorded a hearty welcome by the chairman and members of the board.

Mr. P. Pike, who has represented the Eketahuna Borough on. the Wairarapa Hospital Board for some years, and who has resigned on account of his impending departure from the district, was farcwelled by the chairman at yesterday ’s meeting. A London cablegram reports the death is announced of Sir Edwin Mar-shall-Hall, K.C., the distiguished barrister. He had been ailing for some time past. Sir Edwin Marshall-Hall was 68 years of age, and from 1900 to 1906 and 1910 to 1916 sat as a Conservative member of the House of Commons. He was counsel in many of the celebrated cases of recent times.

The death occurred at the Masterton Hospital yesterday morning, after a long illness, of Mr. Joseph James Carr, who had resided in Masterton since returning from the war. The deceased, who was born in Invercargill in 1894, was wounded in the Gallipoli Campaign, in which he lost his only brother. After his return home, war disabilities prevented him from following his usual occupation, and periodically he was forced to take treatment both at the hospital and the sanatorium. Air. Carr is survived by two sisters, Airs. Plimmcr, of Thorndon, and Airs. Ryan, of Petonc. The funeral will leave Hoar’s mortuary chapel this morning at 11.30 for the Masterton Cemetery.