PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1940, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Miss McGrath, Seatoun, is spending the weekend in Masterton. Miss M. Kummer, Cole Street, Masterton, has returned from a short visit to Wellington. Mrs J. Macßae and Miss Downward, Weraiti. have returned from a visit to Picton. Mrs Newman, Renall Street. Masterton, has been staying with her sister, Mrs Dazzler, Hawke’s Bay. Mrs H. Mac Kay, Renall Street, Masterton, who has been visiting Palmerston North, has returned to Masterton. The death of Mrs Christina Olds, wife of the Rev, C. H. Olds, pastor of the Methodist Church, Hastings, and formerly of Masterton, occurred yesterday. She . was a daughter of the late Captain and Mrs John Densem, Port Chalmers, early pioneers of Dunedin, and was born in 188 a. She married Mr Olds in 1914 and since then had closely allied herself with her husband’s work in the Church in New Plymouth, Invercargill, Christchurch, Auckland, Lower Hutt and Dunedin before going to Hastings about three years ago. Since going to Hastings she had devoted much of her time to the Women's Missionary Auxiliary and the Ladies’ Guild. In addition to her husband she is survived by four sons Messrs Osborne (Wellington), Charles Henry (New Plymouth), Norman CvVairarapa), and Stanley Olds (Wellington), and two daughters, Misses Florence and Jessie Olds, both of Hastings.