PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

Messrs Betts and O’Rorke (Pahiatua) were weekend visitors to Masterton and were staying at the Empire Hotel. Mr C. L. McDiarmid has been reelected chairman of the Hamilton High School board of governors for the 19th term.

Mr T. J., Casey, of Ellerslie, took up his duties as stationmaster at the Pahiatua Railway Station on Saturday. He has replaced Mr E. J. Simons, who has been transferred to the Wanganui district.

Dr E. Beaglehole, department of philosophy, Victoria University College, has been given leave of absence from the beginning of next September to the end of next year to enable him to take part in an experimental school to be held near San Francisco. Messrs G. C, Thornton, W. A. Foote, Geo Drummond, Wallis (Wellington); W. S. Thompson (Wanganui), Misses M. Alexander, Thomas (Wellington), Messrs Robertson, H. Hodge (Alton), were among the weekend guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton. The condition of Mr John Morrison, who was seriously injured in a plane crash at the Hood Aerodrome on Wednesday afternoon, was reported this morning as showing an improvement. Mr F. McDonald, the Wairarapa and Ruahine Aero Club's pilot-instructor, is progressing well. Mr W. E. Fosette, formerly headmaster of the Woodville and Carterton District High Schools and now headmaster of the Wanganui Intermediate School, has been invited by the Wanganui Automobile Association to attend the next meeting of its road committee, when the subject of traffic education in schools will be discussed.

Dr Edward Edinborough Chamberlain, who recently had the degree of doctor of science conferred on him by the Senate of the University of New Zealand, was born in Masterton, and is the third son of Mr and Mrs A. Chamberlain who had been resident in Waverley for many years. Dr Chamberlain is a member of a Wairarapa pioneer family and a number of his relatives reside in Masterton.

Captain Donald Simpson, C.8.E., honorary secretary of the British Empire Service League, received a knighthood in the recent Birthday Honours. During the Great War he was given command of a New Zealand volunteer company. Invalided to New Zealand, he interested himself in the welfare of his returned comrades, and was mainly instrumental in securing the formation of the New Zealand Returned Soldier’s Association to link the local associations which had grown up in various parts of the Dominion. He was its first president, and acted in that capacity till he had recovered from his wound and was able to go on active service again.

Overcome by a seizure while addressing a meeting of the North Rangitikei branch, of the New Zealand National Party. Mrs A. McColl, Omatane, collapsed and died. She was on the point of finishing her speech when she collapsed and died. Mrs McColl was a staunch supporter of the National Party and one of its most prominent workers. Born in Kaikoura, Mrs McColl was the second daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Connon. The family settled in Ohingaiti many years ago, and she married Mr A. McColl, Omatane, about 30 years ago in Woodville, and had resided in Omatane ever since. 'She was well educated and took a keen interest in the Plunket Society, being the first secretary of the Taihape branch.

A ministerial career of 44 years in the Auckland Anglican Diocese was closed by the death of the Rev Arthur James Beck, Northcote, aged 70. Mi Beck was born in Wellington. He studied for holy orders at St Johns College Auckland, and was ordained deacon in 1895, and priest the following year by the late Bishop Cowie. After a period as curate at the Chui ch of the Holy Sepulchre. Mr Beck became vicar of Northern Wairoa, in 1896. His subsequent appointments were to Huntly, 1904; Northcote, 1913; Thames, 1916 and St Luke's Mount Albert, 1924. Because of ill-health he resigned his charge at Mount Albert in 1930, but later took up relieving work at Eltham Warkworth, Hauraki Plains. New Lynn. Ellerslie and latterly as acting-vicar at St Matthew’s Auckland, for two years before the appointment of the Rev G. V. Gerard, now Bishop of Waiapu.