PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL

Messrs W. Letham, Napier, H. M. Power and M. J. Miles, Wellington, were at the Hotel Midland yesterday. Messrs E. C. Jarrett, Auckland, and C. H. Robinson, Invercargill, were at the Prince of Wales Hotel. Masterton, yesterday. The death of Mr George Charles Waudby Morris, senior partner in the Auckland accountancy firm of Messrs Morris, Duncan and Gyllies, has occurred at his residence at Park Road. Titirangi. Miss Vida K. Hammond was yesterday appointed matron of Whangarei Hospital, to succeed Miss E. Swayne, who will retire shortly. Miss Hammond originally trained at Nelson Hospital. Mr R. M. Daniell, son of Mr H. H. Daniell, Masterton, secured second place in the 880 yards open handicap at the national athletic championship meeting of the New Zealand Public Service Sports Society at Wellington yesterday.

The death has occurred of Mr John Wickett Bridgman, of 187 St. Andrew's Road, Mount Roskill, Auckland, at the age of 92. He was the proprietor of a large store in Dominion Road when he retired from business in 1914, and he had been a resident of New Zealand for 87 years. The death occurred at Volvera, Turin, Italy, late hist year, of Father Stephen Bonetto, well known formerly in Christchurch. Father Bonetto came of a distinguished Italian, family, and he spent the early years ot his priesthood in Baltimore and Washington, U.S.A. He came to New Zealand in 1907 at the invitation of Bishop Grimes, and spent two years at the Christchurch Catholic Cathedral, later I.ecoming parish priest at Akaroa, where he stayed for about 12 years. He was transferred to Kumara, on the West Coast, and later returned to the Cathedral, being chaplain to Nazareth House and various other Catholic institutions. Father Bonetto, who was very well known in Canterbury, was a lovable man, and greatly esteemed for his charity to the poor. He retired 12 years ago. when he returned to Italy.