PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1940, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. and Mrs M. M. Simpson, of Masterton. left today on , a motor tour through Taranaki. Senior-Sergeant G. A. Doggett, of the Masterton Police Station, is on annual leave. During his absence Detec-tive-Sergeant W. Kane is in charge of the station. Mr Clifford Huntsman, the English pianist, who was in New Zealand last year, and has since been engaged in recital work in Australia, has returned to Wellington. Messrs T. H. Shoord, F. A. Adair (Auckland), Aulsebrook (Nireaha), T. G. Hood and Boyne (Wellington), are guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton today. Wing Commander Arthur de Terrotte Nevill. Wellington, Wing Commander Edward George Olson, Wellington, and Squadron Leader Geoffrey Newland Roberts, Auckland, officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, have been appointed honorary aides-de-camp to the Governor-General.

The Hon Adam Hamilton, Leader of the Opposition, left Wellington for Invercargill by the steamer express last night. He will be in his electorate next week when the Minister of Public Works, the Hon R. Semple, is visiting Southland. Mr Hamilton will attend the centennial at Akaroa on April 20 before returning to Wellington. Two members of the Wellington Hospital Board, Mrs E. M. Chapman and Mr W. J. Gaudin, have forfeited their seats on the board automatically by reason of their having been absent from four consecutive board meetings. The board decided last night to inform the Wellington City. Council of the position and to state that it was the unanimous wish of members that Mrs Chapman and Mr Gaudin be reappointed. One of the pioneers of electrical engineering, and later in Wellington. Mr Henry Richard Payne Tolley, Wellington, died in a private hospital in his 79th year. Born in London, he went to Australia as a young man, and landed in New Zealand in 1892. He resided in Wellington since then, with occasional trips overseas. A life-long member of the Presbyterian Church, he was for many years an elder of Kent Terrace Church. Mr Tolley entered the electrical engineering business in England in 1883, and was with the original makers of accumulators, the Electric Power Storage Company, one of the earliest firms in the electrical business. Mr Tolley is survived by his widow, two sons, Messrs H. J. Tollev (Wellington) and J. M. Tolley (Eketahuna), and five daughters, one of whom is Mrs Alex Williams (Invercargill); the others are unmarried.