PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1938, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Dr and Mrs W. J.' C. Wells, Carterton, will leave next month on a holiday trip to England. The Rev H. Wilson, of St Peter’s Anglican Church, Pahiatua, is on sick leave and is resting at Waikanae.

Mr J. Curtin, stationmaster at Pahiatua, has received notice of his transfer to Pukeuri Junction, South Island. Mr R. Madden, of Carterton, a pupil of the Wairarapa and Ruahine Aero Club, made his first solo flight this morning.

Mr Ronald C. Gibbons, M.Sc., Canterbury University College, is leaving Wellington by the Wanganella today for Australia to take up a position as a metallurgist at the South Mine, Broken Hill.

The members of the Wairarapa Mortgage Adjustment Commission, Messrs J. H. Handyside, B. V. Skeet and F. Brazendale, have left for Palmerston North, where they will operate as the Manawatu No. 3 Adjustment Commission.

The announcement was made by Mr T. U. Wells at the conclusion of the Auckland Education Board meeting yesterday that he would not seek a further term of office. He has been chairman since 1932, and it was not his wish to retain office indefinitely. Archbishop O’Shea, Metropolitan of New Zealand, and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Wellington, is to leave on his visit to Rome by the Rangitata, sailing from Auckland on August 25, and arriving at London on September 25. After his visit to Rome he is to return to New Zealand by way of America, travelling through the United States early in the New Year.

The funeral of the late Mrs D. Pember, which took place on Monday last, was largely attended by friends and relatives of the family. The services at the residence and at the graveside were conducted, by the Rev F. Parker. The pall-bearers were six nephews of the late Mrs Pember, Messrs S. Cambourn, J. Whiteley, W. Mooney (of Wellington), and F., E. and C. Mooney (of Masterton). Many beautiful wreaths were received, indicating the regret of a large circle of friends at the loss sustained.

Mr R. Gower, stamp printer in the Government Printing Office, has retired after 40 years’ service, and recently the staff of the stamp printing branch assembled to bid him farewell. On their- behalf, Mr J. Douglas, foreman of the branch, presented to Mr Gower a gift, and spoke eulogistically of him as controlling officer and as a friend. He wished Mr Gower good health in his retirement, and said the staff hoped the trip to England and Europe that he and Mrs Gower contemplated would be enjoyable and beneficial. The officers representing the Post Office in the branch supplemented Mr Douglas’s remarks, and Mr Gower suitably replied.