PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1940, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mrs Ellingham is a Pahiatua visitor to Napier.

Mrs H. Woolfe, of Masterton. is visiting Hastings. Miss Randell (Wellington) is staying at the Hotel Midland.

Mr and Mrs Mclntyre, of Ohingaiti. were on a visit to Masterton for the military ball.

Miss Doreen Hirst, High Street, Masterton, who was a patient in the Hobson Street Private Hospital, Wellington, has returned home.

Mrs Pinkerton, who has recovered from her recent serious illness, is at present staying with her daughters at 118 Essex Street, Masterton. Mrs R. Pauli, of Auckland, who had been visiting Masterton, returned home yesterday. Mrs Pauli formerly resided in Masterton for many years, her father, Mr Maltby, being in business here.

The death occurred recently of Mrs. C. Warmington, a very old resident of Wellington. She was born in Yorkshire 87 years ago, and arrived at Wellington in the sailing ship Otaki in 1877. She had lived there ever since, being among the first of the colonists to reside in Karori and Polhill’s Gully. Mrs. Warmington's husband, who was well-known as a warehouseman in Wellington in the ’eighties, died about 30 years ago. News has been received of the death in Melbourne of Mrs F. Montague, formerly well known in musical circles in Wellington and- Dunedin. Mrs. Montague, who was a native of Dunedin, went to Wellington some 35 years ago with her husband and quickly made a name for herself as a pianist and accompanist. When the Competitions Society commenced operations in Wellington in 1911, she was appointed official accompanist. After the Great War she took up her residence in Melbourne, where she remained till her death. Her only daughter married Mr. Frank Johnston, formerly one of Wellington’s most accomplished ’cellists.