PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL

The friends of Mr A. Card, son of Mr J. W. Card, of Featherston, will regret to learn that he is an inmate of a private hospital in Masterton.

Mr and Mrs C. W. Dickason, Short 'Street, <ind Mr and Mrs A. Rolph, Colombo Road, Masterton., left Wellington today on the Rangitata on a visit to England. A recent visitor to Masterton was Flight-Lieut. Rawnsley, pilot instructor of the Wellington Aero Club, who flew to the Hood Aerodrome, later returning to Wellington. Mr Walter E. Fossette, 8.A., headmaster of the Carterton District High School, has been appointed headmaster of the Wanganui Intermediate School in succession to Mr H. Rochfort, who has been appointed to the Intermediate School, Christchurch. The funeral of the late Mr A. J. Hardie took place in Masterton yesterday. There was a representative attendance of mourners and many beautiful wreaths were sent by sympathisers. The Rev David McNeur officiated. Messrs B. Wilson, A. J. Whitehead. L. Askew, L/ Daly, C. Adderson and J. Andrews acted as pall-bearers. The Hon A. Hamilton, Leader of the National Party, left Oamaru yesterday for Invercargill after a two-day visit to the Waitaki, Timaru and Temuka electorates. He addressed meetings in each of those electorates, and the attendances and enthusiasm were comparable with the experience in the North Island during a very successful tour immediately before Easter. In a fortnight, after a visit to North Canterbury, Mr Hamilton will resume his North Island tour when he will visit Auckland and - North Auckland electorates.

Well known as the only remaining member of the garrison of the Pukekohe East Church, which was attacked by Waikato Maoris in 1863, Captain Joseph Corbett Scott, Epsom, Auckland, will celebrate his 101st birthday on Saturday. Captain Scott, who is remarkably active, came to New Zealand with his parents in 1859. when the family settled in Pukekohe East. A few years after the attack Captain Scott disposed of his East Pukekohe farm and took up about 150 acres on the north-cast slope of Pukekohe Hill, which he soon developed into the model farm in the district. In 1875 he married Miss Helen Corbett, third daughter of Dr Corbett. Tuakau.