PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1940, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Martinborough visitor to Hastings is Mrs W. A. lorns. Mrs R. Kebbell, of Eketahuna, is a visitor to Napier. Mr and Mrs A. S. Field, Lower Hutt, were recent guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton.

Mrs E. P. Wright has returned to Tiraumea after a visit to Levin and Masterton.

Miss McMenamin, Napier, was at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton, recently. Mr and Mrs Hood, Napier, were recent guests at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton. Mrs Mason, Wellington, was a recent guest at the Prince of Wales, Hotel Masterton.

Misses Margaret Mace and Shirley Mace, of Masterton, who are at present in England, are engaged in war work there.

Mr and Mrs W. Cornelius (Wellington) and Mr and Mrs T. Newman (Invercargill) were visitors to Masterton for the Newman —Denbee wedding. Mrs Ray Owen, Wellington, who was a guest at the Newman —Denbee wedding, is staying with Mrs E. R. Jenkins, College Street, Masterton. Mrs H. Sharpies, Island-Hay, Wellington. who is the guest of Mrs E. R. Jenkins, College Street. Masterton, was a guest at the Newman —Denbee wedding yesterday. Misses M. Gillespie and K. Wallis were Masterton visitors to the Tiraumea Hockey and Football Club’s Ball. They spent the weekend at the latter’s home at Glen Rowan.

Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs Ivan Wilson, Palmerston North, and formerly of Featherston, have taken Mrs Adamson’s house, 29 Salamanca Road, Wellington, for six months. On Sunday, Bishop and Mrs T. H. Sprott, Washington Avenue, Wellington, celebrated their diamond wedding day. Both enjoy very good health and a most enjoyable time was spent in the afternoon with a quiet family party. Mrs James Hancox, Kairanga, Palmerston North, recently celebrated her ninety-first birthday. She was born in Birmingham, and came to New Zealand with her husband and two children in 1872. Six years later they moved to Wellington and thence to Otaki, where they remained for '2O years. Further moves were made to Mangaweka and Piriaka, where they conducted a store and boarding-house. Mr Hancox died in 1920, when Mrs Hancox went to live with her daughter, Mrs W. H. Davey, Kairanga. One son and three daughters are still living, and Mrs Hancox is able to claim 115 descendants in all —33 grandchildren, 75 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.