PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1939, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Miss Jane Nilsson, of Pahiatua, is at present on a visit to Greytown.

Mrs and Miss E. de Beer are Dunedin visitors to Pahiatua. Mrs. W. Longstaff, of Essex Street. Masterton. is on a visit, to Waipukurau. Miss Bahout. of Palmerston North, is visiting Masterton and is staying at the Hotel Midland. Mrs P. R. Kent has returned to Pon • garoa from a holiday spent in North Auckland. Miss Mary Kent, who has been on a visit to the South Island, has returned to Pongaroa. Mr and Mrs L. A. McDonald, Napier, are visitors to Masterton and are staying at the Hotel Midland. Mr and Mrs A. L. Pickering, of Feilding, have returned home from a visit to Pongaroa. Mrs W. Workman, an old resident of Greytown, celebrated her 88th birthday today. Mrs E. Peters, of High Street, Carterton, is on a visit to her daughter at Christchurch. Mrs Simpson, of Wanganui, is on a visit to Masterton, and is among guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton. Mr and Mrs J. Ronald and daughter. Wellington, are on a visit to Masterton arid are among the guests staying at’ the Hotel Midland. The death occurred recently at Makara, in her ninety-first year, of Mrs' Fanny Alice Hawkins. Born at Taita in April, 1849, she was a daughter of Mr and Mrs P. Trotter. Her mother, born in Glasgow, was a member of one of the first families to settle in the Hutt Valley, having arrived at Wellington in 1840. The Trotter family, arriving a few months later, also settled in the Hutt Valley. In 1873, Mrs Hawkins’s marriage united two pioneer families, her husband, the late Mr F. H. Hawkins, having been born in Wellington in 1848. Except for a period of five years in Greytown,"Mrs Hawkins spent the whole of her married life in Makara, where her kindly and generous nature won her the love and respect of all.