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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr J. Carruthers, Albert Street, has entered Glenwood Hospital. Mr H. W. Carle, of the Masterton branch of the A.M.P. Society has enlisted in Wellington in the Special Military Force. Mr B. R. McGuinness, of Carterton, won the champion jump and ladies’ hunters’ jump at the Hawke’s Bay Show yesterday with his horse “Scout.”

Mr Henry W. Robinson, of Shannon, died in Palmerston North Public Hospital recently. He was born in Grovetown, Blenheim, 74 years ago. He was a footballer in his young days and played for several clubs in Southern Horowhenua. Mr Robinson is survived by his widow, six sons and four daughters. A pleasant function took place at the factory of Messrs Donald and Sons, Ltd., Perry Street, yesterday when members of the staff gathered to farewell Mr.C. E. B. Clernas on his departure for Trentham. The several speakers voiced their best wishes for a good time, no matter when or where the future may determine and for an eventual safe return. As a mark of esteem and goodwill his fellow workers presented him. with a handsome shaving set in a leather case with Mr Clemas’s name inscribed thereon. Mrs Elizabeth Hunt, who had been well known in the Foxton district for many years, died at her residence, Foxton, on Tuesday morning. She was the wife of Mr Charles A. W. Hunt. Born in Karori, Wellington, in 1858, Mrs Hunt celebrated her eighty-first birthday the day before her death. Mrs Hunt lived with her parents. Mr and Mrs William Cornford, in Makara. till her marriage in 1880, when they went to Greatford, where Mr Hunt took up farm lands and later to Pohangina. There Mr and Mrs Hunt remained for many years, but subsequently they conducted hotels in Colyion, Hastings. Napier and Westshore. Mr and Mrs Hunt first lived in the Foxton district, when Mr Hunt was appointed manager of the Whirokino Estate. Mr Hunt later managed the Moutoa Estate. Aoout 17 years ago they took up residence in Fox top. Mrs Hunt was born in the early days of Wellington’s settlement. Her' mother, nee Miss Fanny Shotter. having arrived in the sailing ship Gertrude from Kent. England, in 1841. Her mother died about 18 months ago at the age of 104 years.