PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

At a meeting of the directors, Mr D. O’Brien was re-elected chairman of the Pahiatua Dairy Company. Mr Edward Gilbertson, J.P., who has held the. position of honorary coroner in Wellington for the past seven years, will retire at the end of the month. Constable L. W. LeComte, formerly of Masterton, has received notice of his transfer from Pahiatua to take charge of Waipawa Station and will leave at the end of September. The appointment of Messrs H. D. Acland, J. D. W. Ormond and H. E. Worsp as representatives of the producers of meat for export on the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board > was gazetted last night. Guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton include Messrs G. T. Grant (Wairoa), W. B. Manning, C. J. Drummond, W. R. Ferris, W. Andrews (Wellington) and J. S. Mackenzie (Christchurch). Dr R. S. R. Francis, medical superintendent of the Otaki Sanatorium, who has been engaged in post-gradu-ate study in Britain and Europe, has curtailed his visit and is expected to return to New Zealand in about a month’s time. More than 5000 Maoris from all parts of New Zealand are expected to attend the funeral of the late Mr T. W. Ratana, which will take place at Ratana on Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Already more than 2000 Maoris have arrived at Ratana for the tangi which is in progress.

Rabbi A. S. Slonin, Jerusalem, who has been conducting a mission in the South Island to raise funds for the Mental and Incurable Institute for Women in Palestine, arrived at Wellington by the steamer express from the south yesterday. He will return to Jerusalem through Australia after attending the Jewish High Festival in Wellington during the weekend. The death occurred at Worsgr Bay yesterday of Mr William Magill, who was for some years in the New Zealand Police Force. Mr Magill, who was born in Ireland in 1856, came to New Zealand in 1882. He joined the New Zealand Constabulary, from which he was drafted to the Police Department. There he rose to the rank of sergeant, and served in Gisborne, Napier, New Plymouth and Wellington. Mr Oliver Johnson, a former, wellkno.wn resident of Pahiatua. was found dead in his bod at Woodville yesterday morning. The late Mr Johnson joined the staff of the Pahiatua “Herald" as a reporter in 1910. and in 1924 was appointed managing editor, a position which he held for ten years. At the time of his death he was Manawatu “Evening Standard” representative at Woodville. During his residence in Pahiatua, Mr Johnson was a prominent member of the Methodist Church, acting as circuit steward, lay preacher, trustee and superintendent of the Sunday School.