PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1938, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr A. B. Lancaster, who has been relieving manager of the local A.M.P. Office for the past six weeks, has returned to Wellington Head Office.

Mr C. E. Peck, ex-New Zealand Amateur billiards champion, is the guest of Mr and Mrs C. J. Polson, Bannister Street. Masterton. for the Christmas holidays. The Hon. W. Lee Martin, Minister oi Agriculture, will leave Wellington or. Saturday for Wanganui and the Eas, Coast. He expects to return lo Wellington early in the New Year. Captain Evan Cameron, who has been prominently associated with the Clan Cameron movement since its foundation, will arrive at Auckland bj the Orford on Friday. Dr. E. G. Anderson, honorary senior surgeon at the Wellington Hospital, has resigned because of ill health, and has been appointed to the honorary consulting surgical staff.

Mr J. A. Lee, Parliamentary Undersecretary in Charge of Housing, will leave Wellington for the north this afternoon. He will return to Wellington after the Christmas and New Year holidays.

The estate of Mr John Wardell, grc cer, of Dunedin, was sworn for probate at £45,000; that of Mi’ Thomas C. Harrison, retired teacher. Dunedin, a'. £lB.OOO, and that of Mr Alexandei Taylor, Oamaru, farmer, at £13.000. The following are the Masterton results of examinations held throughout the Dominion by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce: —Typewriting: —Junior: Pass, Phyllis J. Fenton. Bookkeeping:—Pass with honours, Murray G. Wing; pass, Ashley J. Andrew, Desmond A. Cairns. Kenneth M. Miller, Joseph G. Williams. Mr and Mrs A. W. G. Hollings, of Masterton. will celebrate the golden anniversary of their wedding on Sunday next. Mr and Mrs Hollings were married at St. James’s Church. Holloway. .North London, on December 25.! 1888 and arrived in Kw Zealand on 1 November P. 1904. coming straight to; Masterton. They have resided here ever since. There are three children.• ten grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren living.