PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1939, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mrs R. E. Jones, Wellington, is visiting Masterton. I Miss F. Hole, Napier, is the guest of Mrs L. D. Lovelock, of Pahiatua. A Wellington visitor to Masterton is Miss B. Duncan, who is a guest at the Hotel Midland. Miss D. Baildon, Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs Steele. Pownall Street, Masterton. Mr and Mrs R. A. McDonald. Auckland, are staying at the Hotel Midland, Masterton. Mrs J. C. D. Mackley, of College Street, Masterton, spent the weekend at Lower Hutt as the guest of Mrs G. H. Mackley. Mrs R. A. Ewing (Senr), Dunedin, and Mr Ewing (jun), are Dunedin visitors to Masterton, where they are staying at the Hotel Midland. Mr and Mrs J. Siemonek, Senr., of Solway, who have been touring in Wanganui. Palmerston North and Wellington, have returned home. The death occurred at Martinborough on Saturday of Mrs Elizabeth Ann Smith, wife of Mr Albert Smith, at the age of 54 years. The death has occurred in New Plymouth of Mrs Mary Rachel Stowell, wife of Mr H. M. Stowell, aged 73. On her mother’s side she was a descendant of several of the high rangatira families in the Taranaki tribes. Her mother. Mere Ngamai o te Wharepouri, was closely related to the principal chiefs who sold the site of Wellington city to the New Zealand Company a century ago. Her father, the late Mr .Tames Robson, from Northumberland. who was married to Here Ngamai in the original St. Peter's Church in Wellington in 18G3. was one of the pioneer settlers and sawmillers in the Upper Hutt Valley throughout the sixties, and later was the first sawmiller in Greytown. In 1878 the family shifted to Ketemarae (now Norrnanby), in Taranaki.