PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr D. W. Com-oer, of the staff of the Gisborne Publishing Company, is a visitor to Masterton. Mr and Mrs A. T. Murray will spend the Christmas and New Year vacation in Wanganui. The New Zealand High Commissioner’s only son, William Jordan, has joined an Air Force oflicers training unit, a cablegram states. Mr J. H. Hipkins, of Auckland, is spending the Christmas and New Year holidays with his son-in-law and daughter. Mr and Mrs A. W. Beale. Christmas week guests at the Empire Hotel. Masterton, are Captain Holmes (Hawke's Bay) and Mr Anderson (Eketahuna). Mr F. G. Thompson, one of the oldest part-time teachers in the Hutt Valley Memorial Technical College, has tendered his resignation to the board of managers. Mr Denys Hoarc, Christchurch, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Company, Ltd., to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Kir Arnaud McKellar. Mr T. B.‘ Clark, Superintendent, of the Masterton Fire Brigade, has been discharged from the Masterton Hospital where he had been an inmate for several weeks, and is now well on the road to complete recovery. Sir Edward Harding, British High Commissioner for the Union ot South Africa, left London on Thursday, accompanied by Lady Harding, to take up his appointment, a London cablegram states. He was farewelled by Mr Anthony Eden. Secretary for the Dominions.

Mr and Mrs F. B. Gray, of Bannister Street, Masterton. who had a son killed in the last war, have a son serving on It M.S. Achilles, which engaged lite German pocket-battleship Admiral Gref Spec with such conspicuous success. Il must be an unusual record for a family to have sons engaged in both the Great War and the present conflict.

Lieutenant-Colonel W. Ivory, lornierly of the Royal New Zealand Artillery.' has been released for service with the British Government. He is attached to the stall of the Chief Inspector of Armaments, and will go to America and Canada in connection with the inspection ol munitions bought by Great Britain. LieutenantColonel Ivory was tor eleven years Inspecting Ordnance and Mechanical Engineer tor the New Zealand Forces. For seventeen months he was also Officer Commanding the Const Defences, Auckland.

The death has occurred of Dr W. F. Currie. Richmond, aged 47 years, alter an illness of only a few days, states a Press Association message from Nelson. He was engaged among his patients only last Monday. He was a graduate of the New Zealand University. qualifying in Dunedin in 1916. lie then did war service in the Great War. remaining at Home for several years to further his studies. He took a fellowship at Edinburgh College of Surgeons in 1920. and then returned to New Zealand. For several years he was in practice with Dr Hugh Douglas in Hamilton before coining to Nelson to take over the Richmond practice of the late Dr 11. O. Washbourn in 1927. Dr Currie leaves a widow, twin sons mid one daughter. Two sisters are Mrs Miltie and Miss Currie both oi Dunedin