PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1940, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr B. Collerton, junr., of Taihape, is visiting Masterton for the Lansdowne golf tournament at the weekend.

Mr F. O. Tozer has been awarded the Charles Cook Warwick House Memorial Scholarship by the Canterbury University College Council.

The following casualty involving a New Zealander in the Royal Air Force was announced yesterday:—Pilot Officer Albert Edgar Wickham, missing May 22. His father is Mr R. E. Wickham, Christchurch. Mr K. Armour, who was the National candidate for the East Christchurch seat at the last general election, has enlisted for service and has entered the Canterbury district school for non-commissioned officers. Mr A. A. McNab (Blenheim) was elected president and Messrs W. H. Shepherd (Dunedin) and R. I. M. Sutherland (Wellington) vice-presid-ents at the annual meeting of the Royal New Zealand Aero Club. Well-known in sporting circles, specially racing, Mr Robert Henry Law died recently in Wellington. He was born on the West Coast, but lived in Wellington for many years. He leaves a widow, three brothers in Wellington, and a married sister in Hokitika. Mr B. Kerr, of the Dunedin office of the New Zealand Shipping Company, has received notice of his transfer to head office, Wellington. Mr Kerr is well known in Otago swimming circles as a competitor and an official, and many honours have come his way.

Today’s guests at the Hotel Midland Masterton are Messrs H. O. Taylor, C. Davies (Wanganui), B. Hollier (Hastings), P. Lyster, A. B. Martin, H. Carey, J. R. Cooksey, J. Barrett, C. Ashton, A. H. Fitts (Wellington). R. Shanahan. H. Grundy. H. Bretherton (Palmerston North). Mr Ivan Johnstone, of the Wellington Supreme Court staff, who was recently awarded the University of New Zealand Biennial Travelling Scholarship in Law, has been advised by the Victoria University College Council that he has been awarded the Jacob Joseph Scholarship. Mr Johnstone was the only student in New Zealand to graduate LL.M, with first-class honours last year. Advice has been received in Hastings from London of the sudden death on May 2 of Captain Ernest E. Mills Joyce, aged 65, who served in the Antarctic with Captain Scott, in 1900-03, and with Shackleton in 190709 and in 1914-17. On his return from the Antarctic in 1917 he married Beatrice, eldest daughter of Mrs E. A. Gurlett, Hastings, and their home for the past 20 years had been in London.