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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1938, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mrs K. S. Ralph has entered Glenwood Private Hospital for a short period. The friends of Mrs A. Henson, Lansdowne, will regret to hear of the death of her sister, Mrs L. R. Bruce, which occurred in Wellington yesterday. At the statutory annual meeting of the New Zealand Dairy Board yesterday, Mr W. E. Hale, of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, was unanimously elected to the position of chairman, in place of Mr A. J. Murdoch, who retired because of his selection as a candidate for the forthcoming elections. Mr H. N. Holmes, secretary to Xie World Alliance for the Promotion of Good Will Throughout the Churches, who is visiting New Zealand after an absence of 25 years, arrived in Wellington from Napier today. Mr Holmes was associated with the Y.M.C.A. in New Zealnd in its early days, and was particularly interested in the Wellington Y.M.C.A. Mr A. H. McLintock, formerly of Dunedin, who recently had an etching accepted for the Paris Salon, has been awarded a doctorate of philosophy (hist.), his subject for his thesis being the history of Newfoundland, which, it is understood, will shortly be published in book form. Another of Mr McLintock's etchings, his second, has also been accepted by the Royal Academy. Mr W. W. Mulholland, Darfield, Canterbury, was re-elected president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at the annual conference of the union in Wellington yesterday. He was not opposed. Other officers elected were: — Vice-presidents, the Hon F. Waite (Balclutha), Mr H. E. Blyde (North Taranaki); Dominion treasurer, Mr W. Horrobin (Waikanae); elected member of executive, Mr W. J. Polson, M.P. (Stratford). On Tuesday afternoon, Mrs S. K. Siddells, Mayoress of Pahiatua, presided over a large number of women of the district, who gathered in the Borough Council Chambers to make arrangements for a presentation to Matron Berry. After much discussion it was unanimously decided that next Saturday afternoon, in St. Paul’s Presbyterian Schoolroom, a farewell be made to Matron Berry. Dr H. Paterson will make the presentation. Miss Berry is leaving the Pahiatua Public Hospital on the eve of her marriage, after 20 years’ service to the district, and all residents of the Bush district are urged to attend.