PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 October 1939, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mrs Miles, of Tinui, is on a visit to Greytewn. Mrs Atkins, of Wellington, is on a visit to Eketahuna.

A Wellington visitor to Eketahuna is Mrs Fettes.

Mrs J. Yanko, of Lower Hull, has been lhe guest of Mrs F. Dunham, of Eketahuna.

Miss Templin, of the Child Welfare Department. Wellington is a guest at the Empire Hotel, Masterton. Mrs L. Gawlor, Palmerston North, is visiting her sister, Mrs H. Joyce, Cambridge Terrace, Masterton. Mrs Boyd and Miss Bonnie Boyd, of Martinborough, are the guests of Mrs F. Qunham, of Eketahuna.

Nurse M. Maddison is a visitor to Greytown, and is staying with her parents.

Mr and Mrs J. Holland and Mrs Linklater, Wellington, were visitors to Masterton as the guests of Mr and Mrs F. Taylor, Lansdowne. Mrs Gibb-Johnston, of Carterton, who has been seriously ill in the Croydon Hospital. Carterton, is showing a gradual improvement.

Mr and Mrs F. Cummins and Mrs W. Cummins, Wellington, and Mrs R. Carter, Taumarunui, were weekend guests of Mr and Mrs Spicer, Vivian Street, Masterton. Mrs D. C. Collins and Miss Elizabeth Collins, who since their return from an overseas visit have been visiting friends in Auckland, have returned to their home at Tekopura, Featherston.

Miss Whitehouse (superintendent) and Mrs D. K. McKenzie, of the Masterton St John Ambulance Nursing Division, were present in Wellington on Saturday afternoon when a parade of 300 ambulance men and nurses was held at the Centerihial Exhibition. They were shown over the buildings, the first aid posts and the ambulance depot, spending a most profitable time. Mr and Mrs John Fletcher, of Wellington, had a cocktail party at their home prior to the Centennial Exhibition Ball on Friday night, their guests including Misses Jean and Flora Donald (Featherston), Miss Ella Fletcher, Mrs Bruce Donald and Messrs B. and K. Donald (Featherston), Mrs J. J. Craig, Miss June Matthews (Martinborough), Mrs J. M. Tosswill, Mr and Mrs Richard Evans, Mr and Mrs Ronald Muston, Miss Ngaire McLaren, and Messrs lan Nicholl, Dudley Hutton, Stuart Campbell and Gordon Coleman.

Well known in musical circles in New Zealand, Mrs E. E. Muir, formerly Miss Gladys Watkins, died at Kelburn yesterday. Mrs Muir was' a daughter of Mr and Mrs Stephen Watkins and was born in Akaroa. Later she resided in Christchurch, but for most of her life she lived in Wellington. Some years ago she went overseas, studying carillon playing in London, Bruges and Malines. She gained her diploma in carillon playing in Malines, where she was taught by M. Jeff Denyn. About 1931 she returned to New Zealand and was appointed permanent carillonist at the Wellington Carillon. Later, for health reasons, she went to Sydney, where she married Mr Muir, chief reporter of the “Evening Post,” and then returned to Wellington. The death has occurred of Mrs Ngarori Delamere, aged 105, of the Whanau Apanui tribe, Opotiki. The Rev Paul Delamere, son of Mrs Delamere, delivered an address. Sir Apirana Ngata was present at the tangi. The name of the tribe, Whanau Apanui, means children of Apanui, and Mrs Delamere’s ancestry could be traced on one side in a direct line to the great Apanui, and on the othei - side to the Whakatohea tribe. She had in her own right the large greenstone mere which belonged to and was used by Apanui. After the historic war between the Ngatai (Torere) Maoris and her people she .married Mr Eru Delamere, and they were among the pioneers who carved their way along the coast to form new pas and prepare new battlements.