PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1941, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Misses Lois Deller and Valerie Fitzgerald. of Carterton. left this week to attend the Teachers' Training College at Wellington.

Mr and Mrs Wally Lindop and daughter, of Petone. are spending holidays with Mr and Mrs S. Dalgleish. Longbush.

Flight Lieutenant Gladstone Hill and Mrs Gladstone Hill, of Wellington, who have been visiting Masterton have been the guests of Mr and Airs R. Page, Essex Street. Sister V. Dawes, of the Wellington City Mission, who returned four months ago from China, where she waS a missionary of the Church Mission Society, expressed interest in the Happiness Club inaugurated in New Zealand for the promotion of happiness through service. Sister Dawes briefly outlined at the Hutt club her -dreams'' for providing amenities for the girls and women in the community, a work which is at present in its infancy.

Members from many other centres travelled to Wellington to attend the reception given by the New Zealand Founders' Society last night to mark 1 the one hundred and first anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. The president. Mr Cheviot Bell was in the chair. Among those who were present from other places were Mrs D. H. S. Riddiford ' Featherston i. Mr W. H Booth (Carterton) and Miss C. E. lorns. Mrs E. Miller Mrs Drummond. Mrs G. R. Sykes, a vice-presi-dent of the society, all of Masterion. Sister Esther, a well-known personality in Auckland, retired last week after 33 years of ministration to the sick and needy. She was boin in Central Otago and went to Auckland with her mother. .Mrs M. Charles, and her sister Miss Elena Charles, who trained as a nurse and was drowned at the; sinking of the Lusitania. Sister Esther began her work in a small way and for 23 years carried on independently of any organisation, depending on funds received as the result,of appeals. More than (100 persons subscribed regularly. '1 he growth of the worn maoc further assistance necessary in 1930. and the! mission became linked with the Presbyterian Orphanage and Social Services Association, though its finances were independent. Today there are four assistants. Sister Esther was one of the first women to be appointed a J.P. She will live in her retirement in a cottage at Point Chevalier.