PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1938, Page 6

PERSONAL

Their first official calls on the Gov-ernor-General, Lord Galway, at Government House, were made yesterday by Commodore J. W. Rivett-Carnac, of the Leander, and Colonel O. H. Mead, Officer Commanding the Northern Military District. These two officers then exchanged calls on the Leander and at military headquarters respectively. Before Commodore Riv-ett-Cacnnc went to Government House he was accorded a salute of 11 guns from North Head.

Mr S. G. H. Hogg. Pahiatua, has been appointed a coroner. Mr A. Thomson has been reappointad a member of the Marlborough Land Board.

Mr F. W. Smith has been appointed a member of the Wairarapa Licensing Committee.

The death occurred yesterday of Mr James Whyte Kelly, aged 84, reports a Press Association telegram from Timaru. Mr Kelly represented Invercargill in the House of Representatives in the nineties.

A Brisbane cablegram reports the death of Mr Charles Longden, aged 105, believed to be the oldest Crimean War veteran in the world, and the only Crimean veteran in Australia. Mr and Mrs C. E. Wheeler with Cap-' tain and Mrs Burgess, who came to Masterton yesterday for the annual Rotarian Christmas party for children, returned to Wellington this morning. Yesterday afternoon they were the guests of local Rotarians in a motor drive round the district.

At a meeting pf the Management Committee of the Wairarapa Rugby Union a vote of condolence was passed with the relatives of the late Mrs R. Cooper, of Gladstone. The late Mr Cooper, who predeceased her some years ago, was a very active supporter of Rugby in the Wairarapa and was a life member of the Wairarapa Rugby Union. Expressing regret at the Solway College break-up last evening, at the absence because of illness of Mr Malcolm McGregor, the Principal (Mrs M. B. Thompson) said: —“It is an expression of personal regret. As an original guarantor, then as member and latterly chairman of the Board of Governors, Mr McGregor has been associated with me from the beginning of the school. His loyalty, integrity and independence have given lustre to our name. It is our hope that he will soon recover and that Solway will continue to have the benefit of his disinterested service.”