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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1938, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Messrs P. G. Ramsay and A. Owfen Jones, of Masterton, are attending the Anglican Synod in Wellington. Mr W. C. Duffill, formerly assistant engineer to the Eketahuna dounty Council, has been appointed engineer to/the Egmont Coupty Council. The death occurred on. Friday of Mr Charles H. McGill, of Wellington. He leavs a widow and one son. Mr McGill at one time was a leading cricketer and tennis player of Wellington, and also an enthusiastic bowler. . The Rev Father J. M. Wall, S.M., of the Catholic Mission in the. South. Solomon Islands, who has been in. Canterbury on holiday for .some months, arrived at Wellington on Saturday. He is returning to the islands. Mr Charles Douglas, Hastings, who for many years has been secretary of the Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association, Limited, was appointed assistant general manager at a meeting of directors held recently. Mr E. J. Philips was appointed secretary. Mr C. H. Kilpatrick, Wellington, has joined the staff of the International Marine Radio Company in London as a wireless officer. He will probably be engaged on one of the Cunard liners on' the Western Ocean run for the next 12 months.

Mr Stanley Lamb, son of Mr and Mrs W. G. Lamb, of Masterton, who has ■been on a six months’ tour overseas, is returning by the Rangitata, which is due in Auckland ,on July 27. In company with his brother, . Flight-Lieut. Lennox Lamb, of the R.A.F., Shrewsbury, he made an extensive tour of the Continent by car. Although no definite arrangements have yet been made, it is possible that the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon M. J. Savage’, will visit the South Island at the end of next week. “I just want to meet the people,” said Mr Savage on Saturday. He indicated that he had been anxious for some time past to pay a visit to the South Island, and that he hoped to make the trip at an early date.

Mr H. M. Caselberg, who has been appointed as one of the Government members on the committee which is to advise on dairy guaranteed prices, is a son of Mr and Mrs A. Caselberg, Masterton, and holds the office of Supervising Valuer for the State Advances Corporation. His knowledge of farm finance, farm costs and farm management is extensive. Before joining the State Advances Corporation, Mr Caselberg was associated with leading stock and station companies, and gained a wide and varied experience. The death has occurred at Napier of Mr Joseph Frederick Swindell, licensee of the Caledonian Hotel, at the age of 60 years. Mr Swindell was born at Christchurch and was educated at Christ’s College. After residing at Wellington for some years he entered the hotelkeeping business, and conducted hotels at Wellington, Petone, Hamilton, Palmerston North and Napier. He lived at Palmerston North for 24 years, and was one of the original directors of the broadcast station 2ZF in that city. He took over the Caledonian Hotel at Napier only four months ago.

Mr M. H. Oram, jun., Palmerston North, will leave in the Akaroa from Auckland tomorrow for England. He intends to continue his studies at the Institute of Actuaries, London, and at the same time keep in touch with educational statistics at the University of London. Mr Oram secured his M.A. degree with honours at Victoria College, Wellington, and for the past two years has been a research assistant with the New Zealand Council for Educational Research at Wellington. Miss Valerie Oram, his younger sister, will accompany him. She proposes to stay abroad for about 18 months, and will probably further her dancing studies at the Royal Academy of Dancing, of which she is a member.

The death occurred at Te Ore Ore last week of Mrs J. Elers, a daughter of Mr and Mrs Arapata Himona, and a grand-daughter of the only surviving paramount chief, Tutohengarangi (August to his pakeha friends), of Te Ore Ore. Mrs Elers had been one of the treasurers of the Te Ore Ore Maori Ladies’ Social Committee since its inception about twelve months ago. She is survived by her husband and a young family of eight children, and by three brothers and two sisters. The brothers are Mr M. Broughton, Jack and Dick Albert. The sisters are Mesdames T. Carroll, senr, and T. Pura. wiaoris from all parts of the Wairarapa, as well as pakeha friends, attended Mrs Elers’s funeral last Wednesday. As a mark of respect to the memory of the late Mrs Elers, the Te Ore Ore Ladies' Social Committee has cancelled its engagement to welcome the negro debaters who are to visit Masterton on July 21.