PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

Guests at the Hotel Midland, Masterton, include Sir Francis Frazer, Messrs Steel, Robieson and Nops Junr. Mr S. D. Geary, of Masterton, leaves tonight for Hastings, where he will judge the New Zealand Waterloo Cup fixture.

Messrs J. O'Neill (Palmerston North) and A. W. Grant (Wellington) are visitors to Masterton, and are among guests staying at the Prince of Wales Hotel.

Mr Oliver Bunny, of “Waipipi,” Opaki, and Mr W. H. Cruickshank, of Wellington, left Masterton today on a visit to the "Winterless North.” They expect to go as far as the Bay of Islands.

Congratulations were extended by member’s of the Wairarapa Hospital Board at its monthly meeting today to Nurses Fricker and Thom who have passed their State Fftial Examination. The matter was brought to the members’ notice by Mrs J. Robertson. The resignation of Mr L. Melville after 17 years’ service to the county, was received at this month’s meeting of the Horowhenua County Council. The council placed on record its appreciation of Mr Melville’s work, and granted him a month’s leave of absence in recognition of his services. The new superintendent of physical education to the New Zealand Education Department, Mr Philip A. Smithells, M.A., will leave England shortly to take up his appointment in Wellington. He is at present director of physical education at the University of the South-West, Exeter. The death occurred yesterday of the Very Rev. Samuel W. Currie, M.A., D.D., aged 82, states a Press Association message from Dunedin. Mr Currie was closely associated with the Presbyterian Church at Balclutha, retiring in .1925 after being there for 40 years. Dr. Currie was Moderator of the General Assembly held in Welling- 1 ton in 1920.

Sympathy with the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, in his illness was expressed at the monthly meeting of the Masterton Borough Council last night. On the motion of the Mayor, it was decided to convey by letter to Mr Savage the' council's sympathy and to express the wish that he would soon be restored to good health.

The death occurred at Otaki on Monday of Mrs Walter Greenland, of Masterton. The late Mrs Greenland, who was 31 years of age, is survived by a widower and three small sons. There are also three sisters, one of whom is Mrs Te Tau (Masterton). The body was taken south yesterday for burial at Puketeraki, near Dunedin, today.

The death occurred in Wellington recently of Mr George Alfred Probyn, second son of the late Mr George Stewart Probyn, of Bromley, Kent, England. Mi- Probyn, who was a former member of the Wellington Harbour Board staff, was born in 1862. He married Miss Jessie Henrietta Houghton, granddaughter of_.Captain Robert Houghton, master mariner, who came to Wellington by the Aurora in 1840. Mr Probyn was a life member of the Wellington Working Men's Club.