PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr H. Cotter has been re-elected president of the Pahiatua Agricultural and Pastoral Association. Messrs F. W. Morrell (Wellington) and Baxter, and Mr and Mrs Dawson (Hamilton) are guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel. Lieut. J. Ferris Fuller, 8.D.5., N.Z.D.C., left Masterton today to attend an instructional course for Medical and Dental Officers at Trentham Military Camp. Sympathy with the relatives of the late Mrs R. R. Armstrong, James Watson and J. Sage was expressed at today’s meeting of the Wairarapa P. and A. Society. Mr M. G. Ellis, who has been on the staff of the Masterton Post Office for the past three years, has received notice of his transfer to the Chief Post Office, Wellington. Mr and Mrs Waite (New Plymouth), Mr and Mrs Davis (New Plymouth), Mr and Mrs Muggeridge, Senr. (Hawera), Mi- Acton Adams, Christchurch, Mr and Mrs Park, Wellington, Mr and Mrs Muggeridge, Junr. (Hawera), are visitors to Masterton and are staying at the Empire Hotel. Mr H. B. Hawthorn, formerly of Wellington and subsequently in the native school service in North Auckland, who is at present studying at the University of Hawaii in terms of a fellowship, has been awarded a Carnegie grant which wijl enable him to proceed to Yale University to pursue his studies.

Two young recruits for the Melanesian Mission set out last night from Wellington by the' Awatea—a young doctor and his bride, neither of whom had previously been outside New Zealand, now going to make their home on Malaita in the Solomons, an island even today regarded as one of the wildest places in the Pacific. They were Doctor and Mrs J. D. Thomson, Southland. Dr Thomson has gone to relieve Dr Clifford James, at Fauabu. the main mission hospital of the Solomons, on Malaita. One of the few remaining pioneers of the Feilding district, Mr Arthur Rose, died in Levin recently at the age of 82. Mr Rose was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, and came with his parents to New Zealand, settling in Wanganui. For many years Mr Rose worked as a painter and paperhanger, but in 1896 he took up 100 acres in the Pemberton Settlement. At the time Mr Rose said that his sole possessions were a horse and cart, a cow, and £5. As the years went on he enlarged his holding considerably. Ten years ago he retired to a small property in Levin. Of his family, five sons' and three daughters are living. There are 40 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. The appointment of Dr M. A. F. Barnett. M.Sc.. Ph.D., F.lnst.P.. as director of the Meteorological Office in succession to the late Dr E. Kidson was announced last evening by the Minister of Scientific and Industrial Research. Mr Sullivan. Dr Barnett has recently occupied the position of senior meteorologist in the Meteorological Office and has been particularly concerned with those aspects of meteorology affecting aviation. Dr Barnett. who is a New Zealander, obtained his degree of M.Sc. at the Otago University in 1924 with first-class honours in electricity, magnetism and mathematics;. He afterward proceeded to Clare College, Cambridge, and in 1925 won the Denham Baynes Research Studentship.