PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 June 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., Auckland, has begun six months’ leave, part of which he will, spend in the South Island, and the - remainder in Australia.

Messrs M. Kirschberg (Hastings), S. Whittaker (Wellington), W. Letham (Napier), W. Strange-Muro (Wellington), are visitors to Masterton and are staying at the Hotel Midland. The many friends of Mr Stanley R. Divers, of Masterton, will regret to hear of the death of his mother, which occurred in Dunedin on Saturday. Mr Divers left Masterton today for Dunedin.

Messrs J. Skilton (Petone), H. C. Acton-Adams (Kaikoura), Mr and Mrs Lovelock and the Misses Lovelock, .Mr and Mrs Vernon, Mr and Mrs Bell and daughter, Mr Jefferies, Mr and Mrs Sheehan and Mr Akel (Napier), are guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel.

Mr L. B. Bennett, first assistant at the Wanganui Intermediate School, has been appointed head teacher of the Raetihi School. Mr Bennet is a former Manawatu Rugby and cricket representative, and holds executive office in many sports bodies in Wanganui.

The death occurred suddenly on Saturday evening of Mr John Joseph Ryan, licensee of the Metropolitan Hotel, Molesworth Street, Wellington. Born in Greenstone on the West Coast 53 years ago, Mr Ryan had been living in Wellington for the last 20 years. He had been licensee of the Metropolitan Hotel since his mother, Mrs Patrick Ryan, died three years ago. Mr Ryan leaves three sisters, Mrs C. McKenna, Mrs S. Davis and Mrs E. McMillan, and one brother, Mr P. Ryan, all of Wellington. Mr Andrew Liddell, Wanganui, celebrated his ninety-seventh birthday yesterday. He arrived in New Zealand in 1858. Throughout his lifetime Mr Liddell has been associated with both the Masonic and Independent Order of Manchester Unity lodges. Joining the Oddfellows’ lodge in 1866. he was admitted to the purple degree at a past grands’ meeting in 1875. He is the oldest past provincial grand master in New Zealand and is considered by some to be the oldest in the world.

Cabled advice has been received in Wanganui of the death in Sydney of Mr W. Ryan, an old boy of the Wanganui Collegiate School. He received a serious injury on the football field, from which he died on Friday. He was the only son of a well-known Wellington family. Mr Ryan was at the Wanganui Collegiate School from 1931 till 1935, and in his last year captained the school first fifteen, which won the inter-collegiate tournament in Wanganui. Mr Ryan was a member of the Sydney staff of the Atlantic Union Oil Company and was aged 22 years.

The funoral of the late Mr Alfred Falkner, which took place at Eketahuna on Saturday afternoon, was very largely attended by. settlers from all parts of the district. The Rev Leonard Ives, Vicar of Eketahuna. conducted a service at the residence. Kaiparoro, and also officiated at the graveside. Wreaths were sent, besides many others, by the Eketahuna Women’s Division, manager and staff of Messrs Levin and Co and Kaiparoro school children. The pall-bearers, all grandsofts, were: Messrs Donald and Ken Falkner, Robert and Roy Gardiner and Elwyn and Barry Welch.

Formerly a well-known Wellington physician, Dr John Harold Kemp, M. 8., died on Friday in England, where he has been living since his retirement in 1926. Dr Kemp was 65 years old. He was the second son of the late Dr W. G. Kemp, who practised in the early days in Wellington. He was eoucated at Christ's College, Christchurch, Clare College, Cambridge, and Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. After qualifying in England, he returned to New Zealand, and went into practice in Constable Street, Newtown, where he remained from 1903 till he retired in 1926. He then went with his family to Jive in Woodchester, Horsham. Sussex, where he died suddenly.