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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1938, Page 6

PERSONAL

The Hon P. Fraser, Minister of Education, left Wellington for the north by the Limited express last night on an official visit to Auckland, Rotorua and Tauranga. He expects to return to Wellington toward, the end of next week.

Miss Joyce Palamontain, whose marriage takes place next month was the recipient of an electric toaster from her fellow workmates at the firm of Mr W. J. Palamontain yesterday. The lady members of the firm also made her a presentation. The Hon F. Jones, Acting-Minister of Broadcasting, will visit Hawke’s Bay next week to perform the opening ceremony that has been arranged to mark the installation of the new 5-kilo.-

watt transmitter at Opapa. This trans-

mitter is to serve the Hawke’s Bay area, and the ceremony will take place in the studio in Napier. The secretary of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, Mr E. M. Bardsley, has been appointed secretary of the provincial Court Committee which is planning the Dominion-wide court at the Centennial Exhibition. The appointment was made at a meeting of the executive committee of _ the combined ceremonial courts now known as the Dominion Court.

The death occurred in Te Puia Hospital, following a sudden illness, of Mr W. W. Ludbrook, a pioneer of the East Coast and Poverty Bay districts. Mr Ludbrook was a member of a pioneer family, his father being the late Mr S. B. Ludbrook, Bay of Islands, and his mother a daughter of Archdeacon Henry Williams, one of the earliest resident churchmen in the colony. He was the third son of the family, and

was educated at the Church of England Grammar School, Parnell, Auckland. For some years after leaving school he was in the Public Service in Wellington. Later he engaged in farming in the Bay of Islands,' but 30 years ago he moved to the East Coast and settled in Waiorongorfiai, near Ruatoria, and had lived there ever since. He is survived by a widow and two children. The death occurred in Palmerston North yesterday of Mr Edward William Scott, aged 61. Mr Scott was a former member of the police force and was well known in Masterton. He joined the police in November, 1900, and was stationed in Greymouth, sub-

sequently transferring to Reefton and Lyell. He was transferred to Auckland for plain-clothes duty in 1906, and was appointed a detective in 1909. In 1915 he transferred to Wellington, and in the following year was appointed to the rank of sergeant in the uniform branch, and was attached to the Mount Cook station. In 1917 he joined the detective branch with the rank of de-tective-sergeant, resigning from the force with that rank in February, 1921.

Mr Scott is survived by his wife and five children,/ Messrs Nixon Scott, Christchurch, Mr Ted Scott, Panama, Mr Alan Scott, Palmerston North, Mrs N. Francis, Wellington, and Miss June Scott, Palmerston North. The death has occurred of Mr Alick Williams, of St Lawrence station, a member of a well-known Hawke’s Bay pioneer family, his father being the late Mr John Williams, a son of the late Rev Henry Williams. Born in the Bay of Islands in 1861, Mr Alick Williams went to Hawke’s Bay in the early eighties, and when about 18 years of age worked on Te Ante station. Later he worked for a period as a stock agent with the late Mr William Nelson in Hawke’s Bay, and became one of the founders of the well-known stock

agency firm of Abraham and Williams, Ltd. After being with that firm for about five years, he resigned to take over the management of Pourere station for Mr William Busby. At this time Pourere station was one of the very big holdings in the province, being more than 30,000 acres in extent. In 1901 he went to manage St Lawrence station, then a property of 16,000 acres, for Archdeacon Williams, and he had remained on this property ever since. Mr Williams married Miss Edith Ida Cooper, Wellington, a daughter of the late Mr G. C. Cooper. Mrs Williams died in 1924, and several years later Mr Williams married again, his second wife being Miss A. M. Sugden, Feilding, who survives him.