PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1939, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mrs E. F. Barton, Lansdowne, is visiting Auckland. Miss N. Cohen, New Plymouth, is visiting Masterton. Miss E. Michael, Wellington, spent the weekend in Masterton. Miss Bunty Reynolds, Wellington, spent the weekend in Masterton. Mrs Cornelius-Walker has returned to Pahiatua after a visit to Wellington. Mrs Cedric Thompson, is the guest Of Mrs S. J. Gill, Cole Street, Masterton. Mrs Lawry, of New Plymouth, is on a visit to Masterton and is staying at the Empire Hotel. Mrs Max Jensen, of Rowan, Taranaki. is the guest of Mrs Coppell, Ballance. Miss M. Langdon, Tinui, has returned from a short visit to Paraparaumu Beach. Mrs A. W. Don. “Hadlow,” Masterton, will leave this week on a visit to Auckland. Mrs Northland, a Palmerston North visitor to Masterton, is among the guests at the Empire Hotel. Mr and Mrs S. L. P. Free, t High Street, Mastet’ton, are staying at Paraparaumu Beach. Mrs H. G. Moser, Queen Street, Masterton, is staying with her sister, Mrs Trevor Thompson, Auckland. Mrs Seldwick, of the Child Welfare Department, Wellington, is visiting Masterton and is staying at the Empire Hotel. The death' occurred at Dunedin on Monday of Mrs Emma Harries, who on July 18 last celebrated her one hundred and., fifth birthday and was believed to be the oldest white woman in. New Zealand. She was born in the parish of Bermondsey on July 18, 1834, and on the occasion of her recent birthday her birth certificate was exhibited for the first time in New Zealand. Mrs Harries came to the colonies 70 years ago. settling in Australia for 20 years, where she married. In 1888 she landed at Port Chalmers. Her husband died about eight years after arriving in New Zealand.