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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 May 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mrs J. Connell, who underwent a slight operation at Glenwood Hospital recently, has returned to her home in College Street. The Rev. G. H McNeur, of Canton, who has been staying at Lansciowe, has left to attend the annual conference of the Presbyterian Maori Missionaries at 'Ohopi, Whakatane. Among those who passed in Bookkeeping, Stage 11, in connection with the examinations held by the New Zealand Institute of Secretaries in April was Heather Wilson, of Masterton.

Mr ‘Max Rogers, Publicity Manager of Paramount Films, Ltd., has returned to Wellington after spending some days in Masterton in connection with the screening of "North West Mounted Police.” Mr Rogers is an Old Boy of Wairarapa High School. Mr R. Brown, headmaster of the Taradale and Greenmeadows Schools, will quit these positions shortly to take up an appointment in Westport. He has been headmaster of the schools for five years and a half. Mr A. W. V. Vine, president of the Timaru branch of the Society of Registered Music Teachers of New Zealand, has been elected as representative for Canterbury on the registration board of the society in place of Dr. J. C. Bradshaw.

The Rev. A. C. Wedderspoon, of Invercargill, who is celebrating his jubilee as a minister of the church, was congratulated at a meeting of the Presbytery of Southland recently. Mr Wedderspoon has spent 40 years in the service of the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand.

Mr John Jacobs, secretary of the Otago Hospital Board, this month will celebrate his fiftieth year in the service of public bodies in Dunedin. Ort May 14, 1891, he was appointed to a junior position with the Dunedin City Council. He has been secretary of the hospital board for 31 years, ever since its inception in May, 1910. The many friends of Mr and Mrs R. E. Gordon Lee, of Te Ore Ore, will regret to learn of the death of their son, Athol Johnstone, at the age of 10 years. The lad became ill on Saturday night and was admitted to Glenwood Private Hospital, where he was operated on. His death occurred yesterday. The funeral will take place tomorrow, leaving the residence, Te Ore Ore, following a service at 2 p.m., for the Masterton Cemetery. Mr and Mrs J. L. Harding. Rexwood Street. Carterton, have received advise that their son Lieutenant R. E. Harding, R.N.V.R. (N.Z.), has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant-command-er. He was one of the first New Zealand R.N.V.R. officers to leave for overseas service. Towards the end of last year he had a leg broken and received head wounds when his trawler was sunk by enemy action. Though still in hospital he is making satisfactory progress towards recovery. Lieu-tenant-Commander Harding is an Old Boy of the Wairarapa High School.

The death occurred recently of Mr C. B. Robinson, Lower Hutt. Fifty years ago. he was one of the sturdiest workers for the reduction of shop hours from the long clay periods of former times to those of the present day. Mr Robinson, after leaving the drapery trade, took up a farm at Shannon. which he ultimately disposed of to settle for the rest of his life at White’s Line East. He was a Justice of the Peace, and for many years was an active member of the Wellington Hospital Board, and also a lay reader of the Anglican Church and member of the Synod. One of the outstanding preachers in the United States and an author of international repute. Dean Lynn Harold Hough, of Drew Theological Seminary, will pass through Auckland next Friday by the Monterey on his way to Australia, where he will deliver the Cato Lecture for 1941. Dean Hough for the past 10 years has occupied for a month each year the pulpit of the City Temple, one of London’s chief churches. and recently a target of German air attack. He is one of the large body of American citizens eager to secure the fullest and most unhesitating aid for Britain at once.