PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

Messrs L. Holbrooke (Tiraumea) and F. G. Hood (Wellington) are staying at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton.

Word has been received in Masterton that Sir Herbert Hart and Lady Hart will return to New Zealand from Egypt about the end of October. Mr G. T. O’Hara Smith, Town Clerk, will be visiting Palmerston North tomorrow to attend a meeting of the executive of the Town Clerks Institute. Mr W. H. Gemmell, a member of the staff of the Masterton Magistrate's Court, has received notice of his trans-: fer to Wellington. He will commence his new duties on Monday. Prior to his departure for Ngaruawahia military camp on Wednesday, a large number of friends gathered at the home of Mr Arthur J. Beals, Masterton, to wish himwiu revoir. A pleasant evening was spent. The Rev. Neville S. Barnett, Vicar of Bulls, has been advised by the Venerable Archdeacon W. Bullock, VicarGeneral of the Diocese of Wellington, that he has been appointed a voluntary chaplain at the Royal New Zealand Air Force station, at Ohakea. The death occurred last week in the Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, of Mr F. W. Rowell, of Morrinsville, at the age of 44. The late Mr Rowell married Miss Myrtle Cooper, of Hukanui, 16 years ago. He served in the Great War with the New Zealand Main Body. He leaves a widow and family of seven.

The following military appointments were gazetted last night: —Colonel I. T. Bowerbank is appointed DirectorGeneral of Medical Services (Army and Air Force). Major W. H. B. Bull is promoted Lieutenant-Colonel and appointed Assistant-Director of Medical Services. Lieutenant-Colonel B. S. Finn is appointed Director of Dental Services (Army and Air Force). Lieu-tenant-Colonel A. E. Conway is appointed Director of Mobilisation, Army Headquarters.

Cabled advice has been received from the English Air Ministry by the mayor of Wairoa, Mr H. L. Harker, that his son, Pilot Officer B. L. G. Harker, was killed yesterday in an air accident at Home. No details of the accident, were contained in the cable. Pilot Officer Harker was only 21 years of age. He would have celebrated his twenty-second birthday on October 15. He left New Zealand in December, 1937, to join the Royal Air Force.

An effort to have the name of Puketapu Road altered to Drummond Road in honour of the district s first war casualty, Mr John Drummond, Puketapu, is to be made by the Taradale branch of the Returned Soldiers’ Association. The association decided to ask the Taradale Town Board to lake up the question of altering the name of the road with the Hawke's Bay County Council, and also decided to forward a resolution of sympathy to Mr and Mrs P. Drummond in the loss of their son.