PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

Guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel. Masterton, include Messrs Rowlands (Palmerston North) and Btlshby i Hastings).

At a meeting of the directors of the Konini Dairy Co, Mr W. D. Harris was elected chairman on the motion of the retiring chairman (Mr H. Hirst) who did not seek re-election.

Mr A. K. Holt. M.Sc., assistant-lec-turer in physics at Otago University, has been appointed a housemaster at Wellington College. He replaces Mr R. C. Tuck, who recently secured a position in Dunedin.

The death has occurred of Mr James Frederick Joyce, aged 75, after several, weeks of illness, states a Press Association message from Invercargill. He was associated with, the "Southland News" since 1884. and was a lifetime citizen of Invercargill, where he was held in the highest respect. Formerly he was a prominent, oarsman and bowler.

The Leader of the Opposition, the Hon A. Hamilton, was absent from his official duties in Parliament yesterday suffering from a mild attack of influenza. His place in the House of Representatives was taken by the Rt Hon J. G. Coates (Kaipara). The Rt Hon G. W. Forbes (Hurunui), who generally deputises for Mr Hamilton wfyen he is away from the House, was out of Wellington. At the annual conference of the North Island Motor Union at Palmerston North yesterday the following officers were elected:—President, Dr Porritt. (re-elected); vice-presidents, Messrs J. H. Edmundson (Hawke’s Bay) and A. Grayson (Auckland); executive council, Messrs F. G. Farrell (Auckland). W. T. Guild (Taranaki), A. S. Burgess (Wanganui), W. H. Brown (Manawatu), Dr W. D. Fitzgerald (Hawke’s Bay), Messrs R. W. Roydhouse (Wairarapa) and E. Palliser (Wellington). The sudden death yesterday of Mr George Gaudin, Lower Hutt, removes a familiar figure from Trentham on race days. For more than 40 years, Mr Gaudin had been in charge of the Wellington Racing Club's weighing room staff. He was well and favourably known to all visiting owners, trainers and jockeys, who will receive news of his death with great regret. Mr Gaudin was also employed by the Wairarapa, Masterton, Levin and Otaki clubs at race meetings, and by the Wellington Trotting Club. He was for some years assistant secretary to the Hutt Valley Horticultural Society. His wife predeceased him 18 months ago, and he is survived by a family of six.

After 51 years’ association with the dairy industry in New Zealand, a service which for length and variety probably constitutes a record in the Do? minion, Mr H. E. Pacey will tomorrow retire from the positions of managing director of the New Zealand Casein Company. Limited (Wanganui), Glaxo Manufacturing Company (New Zealand), Limited (Palmerston North), and of Joseph Nathan and Company (New Zealand), Limited, Wellington. He will, however, continue as chairman of directors of each company, and will also retain his seat on the London board of the parent company of the three organisations. Joseph Nathan and)Company, Limited (incorporated in England). The death occurred recently of Mr H. Leaper, Wellington, a member of the staff of the Government Life Insurance Department. The late Mr Leaper, who was 46 years of age, was the youngest son of Mr A. H. Leaper. Nelson. He was educated at Nelson College ,and in 1911 joined the Customs Department in Wanganui. He served with the department also in Wellington, Dunedin and Auckland till 1930, when he left the Public Service for a time. Five years ago he joined the Government Life Insurance Department. He served overseas during the Great War as a lieutenant with the 35th Reinforcement (N.Z. Rifle Brigade), and after being badly gassed was invalided home unfit for further service. Nearly 60 members of the New Zealand Police Force, drawn from Wellington Central and suburban stations, attended the funeral yesterday of Constable Norman Therise Davis, (formerly of Masterion) whose death occurred in Auckland last Saturday, after an accident. The men assembled at the Taranaki Street Police Station before marching to the chapel of E. Morris, jun., Kent Terrace. Headed by the Wellington Police Highland Pipe Band, under Pipe Mqjor N. McPhee, , and led by Drum Major C. Annis, the detachment of uniformed constables made an impressive sight as it marched through the city streets. The funeral left the mortuary chapel shortly after 2.30 p.m., and went via Vivian and Willis Streets to Ghuznee Street, where buses were waiting to convey the constables to Karori Cemetery.