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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1938, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr D. E. Parton, of Christchurch, and formerly of Masterton, is on a visit to the town. Mr and Mrs J. H. Irving left yesterday on a holiday visit to Rotorua and Taupo. The death of the Sultan of Perak is reported in a cablegram from Singapore. Mr E. Buckton, formerly of Masterton, who has been spending a few days in Masterton, returned to Timaru today. The death occurred at Santa Monica, California, of Mr E. C. Segar, aged 43, cartoonist, a New York cablegram reports, creator of “Popeye the Sailor Man.” Mr H. E. Moston, Under-Secretary for Labour, who has been attending the International Labour Conference ih Geneva, arrived at Auckland from Vancouver, by the Aorangi yesterday. The Rt Rev H. St B. Holland, Bishop of Wellington, who has been spending a holiday at Kawau for health reasons, returned to Wellington by the Limited express on Saturday. He is quite restored to health. Flight-Lieutenant D. M. Allan, chief instructor to the Auckland Aero Club, has been promoted to the rank of squadron leader, and will command the Auckland Territorial Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force. Mr H. Greenwood, librarian of the Dunedin Athenaeum, has been appointed city librarian in Palmerston North, and will assume his new duties at the beginning of next month. Mr Ronald C. Muston, left Auckland by the Mariposa today for the United States to secure information as to the latest methods for doing the specialised work required in building the Dominion provincial courts fdr the 1940 Centenary Exhibition. Mr Muston will be accompanied by Mrs Muston. The death occurred in Sydney on Thursday of Sister Mary Loughnan, a member of the Community of the Sisters of Charity and a daughter of the late Mr Henry Nicholas Loughnan, Burrabogie Station, New South Wales. Sister Mary Loughnan,,who was well known in New Zealand, was a brilliant musician and taught for many years in convents of her order. She is survived by three brothers—two of whom live in the Dominion. They are Mr F. St J. Loughnan, Invercargill, and Dr James Loughnan, Scargill, who left a fortnight ago to visit his sister in Sydney. The death occurred in Hastings on Saturday of Miss Annie Mabel Hodge, founder of Woodford House, the wellknown girls’ boarding school in Havelock North. Miss Hodge, who was born in Cheltenham, England, and educated at Woodford House, Croydon, taught for many years in Germany before coming to New Zealand in 1903. She established Woodford House in the same year at Hastings. Leaving the old Woodford House, she commenced in 1910 with the co-operation of Mr William Nelson, a larger Woodford House in Havelock North on the existing property of Mr Mason Chambers. Miss Hodge retired in 1918 and Miss M. Holland took over the school.