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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1938, Page 6

PERSONAL

The Hon. Adam Hamilton, Leader of the Opposition, left Wellington for Hawera yesterday. The death occurred on Sunday of Mr William Wilson, aged 70, manager of the Hokitika Savings Bank, after a short illness. He leaves a widow. Mr G. G. Hancox, Principal of Wairarapa College and Mr G. W. Morice, first assistant, are in Wellington attending the Secondary Schools’ Conference.

The death occurred in the Pahiatua Hospital on Sunday of Mr J. Kinivan, who sustained a broken back in a motor accident at Pongaroa some weeks ago.

At the meeting of the Masterton County Council yesterday, the chairman, Mr W. I. Armstrong, was appointed to represent the Council on the No. 10 Wairarapa Highways Council. Miss Edie Horner, of the Masterton Dental Clinic staff, has left on a visit to England. She is leaving by the Wangenella and will connect with the Ormande at Sydney. Miss C. J. Wells, physical training instructress of the Wellington Technical College, and at one time on the teaching staff of St Matthew’s School, has left on a twelve months’ visit to England. The Federal Cabinet has appointed Mr L. R. McGregor as Australian Commissioner to the United States, a Canberra cablegram states. Mr McGregor has been Australian Trade Commissioner in Canada since 1930. The sudden death at the age of 71 of Sir Ernest Wreford, one of Australia’s best known bankers, is reported in a Press Association cablegram from Melbourne. Sir E. Wreford was a director of the National Bank of Australasia and was chairman of the Associated Banks of Victoria on several occasions. The death occurred at Napier on Monday of Sister M. St. Melanie, aged 72, a member of the order of Notre Dames des Missions. Sister Melanie was born in County Kerry, Ireland. She came to New Zealand and was received into the order at Christchurch in 1893. She then went to Taranaki to the new foundation of Stratford, and remained in that district till 1907, when she came to Napier Convent, where she has since been stationed. The transfer of Mr J. L. Stout, stipendiary magistrate at Palmerston North, to Wellington, as senior stipendiary magistrate, was announced last evening by the Minister of Justice, Hon H. G. R. Mason. Mr Stout is to take up his new apointment on the expiry of the leave granted to the present senior stipendiary magistrate, Mr E. D. Mosley, who will retire from the position on June 20 for reasons of illhealth.

Mr C. P. Belton, a member of the plain clothes staff of the Gisborne Police Force, will, in all probability, stand at the general elections in November as an Independent member with Labour leanings. Mr Belton, who is acting-detective, has been in Gisborne about 18 months, and though of a quiet disposition he is popular with a large section of the public. He is a noted chess player and recently participated in the New Zealand chess championship. Mr Belton is making application for leave to allow himself to be nominated as candidate, but it is not expected that there will be much trouble in that direction. Advice has been received by cable from England of the death of Mr William Gray, late headmaster of Heretaunga School (near Hereworth). Havelock North, Hawke's Bay. MiGray. who graduated from Cambridge with B.A. (honours), was a prominent figure in the teaching profession in New Zealand for many years. He was owner and headmaster of the old Napier Grammar School, and in 1900 he took over the Heretaunga School, which was then at Hastings. When this school was moved to Havelock North. Mr Gray continued in the position of headmaster, which he occupied until he resigned in 1923.