PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr G. Collerton, of Taihape, is on a visit to Masterton. Mr N. A. Miller, of Ohingaiti, is a visitor to Masterton.

Mr P. D. Williams, of Christchurch, was a visitor to Masterton for the weekend and stayed at the Hotel Midland.

Guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel include Messrs C. J. Hayes (Gisborne), Pringle, Peters, and Ticehurst (Wellington).

Mr V. R. Lemberg, of Mauriceville West, who is a director of the Mauriceville Dairy Company, has found it necessary to enter the Masterton hospital for treatment.

Mr S. I. Baird, a member of the literary staff of the ‘'Times-Age,” has been appointed to the Civil Reserve of Pilots, and is te commence training with the Wairarapa and Ruahine Aero Club.

The death occurred in Wellington yesterday of Mrs J. P. Firth, whose husband Was for many years headmaster of Wellington College. Mrs Firth was the daughter of Mr and Mrs N. Mcßae and a granddaughter of Mr G. Mcßae, who settled in Nelson in 1842. Later the family moved to Christchurch, where Mrs Firth was married in 1889. In 1892 Mr and Mrs Firth came to Wellington, where Mr Firth took up the headmastership of Wellington College. She was a foundation member of the Pioneer Club and the Wellington Women’s Club. Mr Firth died in 1931. Mrs Firth is survived by a sister and two brothers.

Formerly a well-known hotel proprietor in Wellington.« Taranaki and Rotorua, Mr Peter T. Pedersen died in Wellington last week. Mr Pedersen, who was in his seventy-ninth year, was a native of Oslo, Norway. He came to New Zealand as a young man. In later life he entered the hotel business and was the proprietor of several well-known Wellington hotels. He acquired the freehold of the Inglewood Hotel, Taranaki, and was later for some years proprietor of Lake House. Rotorua. He had been living in Wellington in retirement for some time up to -the beginning of a serious illnessseveral months ago. He was married twice and is survived by his widow and two children by his first marriage—Mrs W. Fisher, Hataitai, and Mr R. Pedersen, Los Angeles, California. At the Saint Andrew Society gathering in Masterton on Saturday evening, touching reference was made by the Chief (Mr H. McKenzie Douglas) to the loss sustained by the society since its previous gathering in the deaths of Mr Jas McGovern, of Mauriceville, and Chief's Piper David McLeish. Mr McGovern had, until illness overtook him, been an enthusiastic member of the society, and a keen participant in all its activities. Mr McLeish had been a Chief's Piper for some years, and had always rendered willing service to the society, until his increasing ill-health had kept him from the society's gatherings. At the request of the Chief, the large assemblage stood while Piper L. Pither played a lament as a mark of respect for the memory of the departed members.

The many friends of Mr G. R. Scat fe a well-known and highly respected resident of Napier, and formerly of Masterton, will regret to hear of his death, which occurred in the Napiet hospital on July 14, after a long illness. which he bore with great fortitude. The late Mr Scarfe was for many years in the employ of the Hawke’s Bay Farmers Co-operative Association in the Napier retail store, and after the 1931 earthquake he entered into business on his own account, but was forced to retire owing to ill-health. During his residence in Masterton ho was employed in the grocery department of tile W.F.C.A. for several years. He married a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs J. Apperley of this town, and besides his widow, he leaves a grown up family of three, one son. Mr Edward Scarfe of Wellington. Mrs Wilkinson of Havelock North, and Miss Lorna Scarfe of Napier.