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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1940, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Hon. F. Langstone, Minister of Lands, returned to Wellington yesterday from the north. The Hon. H. T. Armstrong, Minister of Health, returned to Wellington last evening from Wanganui. The Hori. W. Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, will return to Wellington tomorrow from the north. The Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister of Mines, will return to Wellington tomorrow from the West Coast. The engagement is announced of Olive Ada, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs C. L. Beale, Villg Street, Masterton, to Herbert Stanley, youngest son of the late Mr and Mrs David Lawson, Wellington. After a long illness and much suffering the Rev. Arthur Nelson, the distinguished Congregational minister of the Beresford Street Church since 1935, died yesterday, aged 51, states a Press Association message from Auckland. The member for Masterton (Mr. J. Robertson) and Mrs Robertson are leaving tonight for the South Island, and expect to be away for a fortnight. Mr. Robertson will deal with various items of Government business in the course of his tour.

Sir Clutha Mackenzie, who spent the first eight months of the war on a war mission to India, Burma and Malaya, has accepted an invitation to visit the United States in connection with Red Cross activities and St. Dunstan’s Hostel for Blinded Soldiers. London. He will leave New Zealand toward the end of this month, accompanied by his daughter. Miss Betty Mackenzie. Dr. George Inglis Miller, mayor of Ashburton, died in Christchurch after a long illness, states a Press Association message from Ashburton. He was a son of the Rev. George Miller, past Moderator of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Miller was born at Gore 42 years ago and practised at Kaikoura and Waikari before finally settling in Ashburton in 1929. He was elected mayor three years ago and was chairman of* the High School Board. He leaves a wife, two sons, and a daughter. Mr. William Mein Smith, Palmerston North, died recently. An early pion-eer,-he was born in the Wairarapa district 71 years ago, the eldest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Smith, and a grandson of the late Captain Mein Smith, surveyor-general- of the Land Settlement Company, who arrived by the Cuba in 1840. His mother was a daughter of Dr. S. Revans, Greytown’s first medical man. and a niece of Mr. S S. Revans, who owned and printed the first New Zealand newspaper. In 1895 Mr. Smith married Miss Grace Zillward, Carterton, who predeceased him in 1896, leaving an infant daughter In 1900 he married Alice Maude, second daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Claude Revans. Palmerston North; he leaves a widow and family of four, Mesdames H. M. Young (Waingaro) and R. J. Williams (Feilding), Mr, F. L. Smith (Blenheim), and Corporal M. W. Smith, who is serving with the third echelon.