PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1939, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mrs W. Hodges, of Wellington, is visiting Masterton. Mrs C. Morris, of Lansdowne, is a visitor to Napier.

Miss Rosamund Riddiford, of Featherston, is a visitor to Auckland. Miss Patterson, of the Health Department, Wellington, is staying at the Empire Hotel. Mr and Mrs Parsons, of Plimmerton, who have been visiting Masterton have returned home.

Mr and Mrs W. Wood, of Wellington, are staying at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton. Mr and Mrs Gregory, Taihape, are visitors to Masterton and are staying at the Empire Hotel. Miss Margaret Southey, of Eketahuna, who is an inmate of a private hospital in Pahiatua, is making excellent progress and is expected home towards the end of the week. The death occurred yesterday of Miss Isabel K. K. Irvine, matron of Weir House, the Victoria University College hostel, after a month's serious illness. Miss Irvine, who was a daughter of Mr and Mrs J. H. Irvine, Dunedin, was a fully qualified nurse and had proved herself to be fully competent in the position she occupied at Weir House. A very old resident of Wadestown and formerly a well-known nurse, Mrs Mary A. Norling, widow of the late Mr Augustus E. Norling, has died at the age of 85 years. Before her marriage, Mrs Norling was a Miss McCauley, and she arrived in New Zealand 63 years ago from Plymouth in the ship Caroline. She stayed in Nelson for a year before going to Wellington, where she married. She had lived in Wadestown for 53 years.