PERSONAL.
Messrs R. Hewitt (Wellington.) and Edmonds (Nelson) stayed overnight at the Empire Hotel, Masterton.
Guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton, include M. Munro and A. Henson (Taihape), P. Kamo (Featherston) and J. Fleming (Wellington). Mr C. R. Davis of the engineering staff of the Otago Harbour Board, has been appointed engineer to the Napier Harbour Board in place of Mr G. W. B. Lowson, who has resigned. Midland Hotel <Masterton) guests yesterday were: Messrs L. H. Govan (Christchurch), R. C. Blincoe (Palmerston North), P. Hereford, R. N. Johnston. G. Cameron. H. Holland, R. 11. Mansfield (Wellington). Dr T. Graham Fox. the son of Mr and Mrs T. B. Fox, of Nelson Street, Hastings, and formerly of Masterton, has been advised that he has passed his final examinations in M. 8., Ch.B. He has taken up an appointment on the medical staff of the Auckland Hospital. Dr Fox received his primary education at the Hastings Convent. Mr H. N. Burns, secretary of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association, has tendered his resignation because of his enlistment in the Second Echelon of the Special Force. His resignation has been accepted by the committee with regret, and tributes were paid to the service he had given the association. Mr II F. Bollard has been appointed acting-secretary till the annual meeting of the council. Lieutenant S. H. Dawe, who has been for the past two years associated with the staff of the Masterton Borough Council as Assistant Engineer, and who will join the 6th Field Regiment (Artillery) at Ngaruawahia Camp shortly, left today for Wellington before going north. As he will return to Masterton before embarking for overseas, advantage will be taken of the occasion by his borough office colleagues to entertain him and make him a presentation.
Mr R. M. Grant, a well-known resident of Northland for many years, died at his home yesterday, in his seventy-fifth year. Tie was a younger son of the late Mr T. M. Grant, an English insurance manager and at one time secretary to the Norwich Union Life Insurance Company, ami was born in Dublin, and educated at the Norwich Grammar School. He came out to New Zealand as a cadet on a sheep station bv the ship Orangi in 1884. and worked in the Poverty Bay district and on various Marlborough sheepruns, till a bad accident on the Clarence River forced his retirement from pastoral pursuits. After some years engaged in commercial pursuits, he joined the staff of the Land and Income Tax Department. from which he retired some nine years ago, after 20 years' service.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1940, Page 4
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