PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

Captain S. C. V. W. Sugden, formerly of Masterton. has been promoted to the rank of Major. Mr. Warren Burling, of Masterton, who met with an accident some time ago is showing signs of definite improvement.

The death occurred at Palmerston North yesterday of Mr J. B. Rose, formerly of Pahiatua, at the age of 86 years.

Guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton, include Messrs O’Shea (Wellington), M. Stevens (Wellington), and S. Dyer (Christchurch). Mr B. P. Mansfield, superintendent of reserves in Invercargill, has been appointed a member of the examining board of the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture.

It is of interest* tq note that Colonel G. S. Stallard, leader of the Dominion Party in South Africa, who has been included as a member of . the Smuts Cabinet, is neither a member of Parliament nor of the Senate. Colonel Stallard and most members of his party were defeated at the last general election.

The. personnel of the Dairy Factory Managers’ Registration Board is announced in the Gazette issued last evening. The members are Mr John Dunlop, representing the Dairy Board; Mr John Murray, representing the New Zealand Dairy Factory Managers’ Association; Mr William Bagrie, representing the Southland and Otago Cheese Factory Managers’ Union; and the Director of the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture, Mr W. M. Singleton.

A well-known citizen, Mr Harry John Stott, died suddenly at Wellington yesterday after a brief illness at the age of 69 years. He was born in England, and was educated at the Bedford Modern School. As a young man he was an enthusiastic oarsman, and on more than one occasion he took part in Henley regattas on the Thames. He came out to New Zealand in 1907 and shortly after his arrival joined the Auckland staff of Sargood, Son and Ewen. Ltd. He left that employment to take up an appointment with Ross and Glendining Ltd., in Wellington, some twenty-five years ago, and, on leaving that firm, went into business in Wellington as a land and estate agent. He was one of the founders of the Wellington Automobile Association, and for some seventeen years was its secretary. He loaves a widow and three children.