PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1941, Page 2

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mrs W. Dalziell. Masterton, is a visitor tlo Napier. Miss Benesman, of Masterton, is visiting Hastings. Mrs Noel Parkes, of Blenheim, Is visiting Pahiatua. Mrs J. Cameron, of Masterton. is visiting Palmerston North. Miss M. Theyers. of Auckland, is the guest of Mrs F. G. Wrigley, of Rangit u man. Mrs A. E. Hall, "Waitangi,” Park Road, Carterton. who has been on a holiday visit to Hastings returned home today. Mr and Mrs A. Tinsley, of “Taumate," who have been spending a holiday at Napier, returned to Carterton today. Mrs L. Sowman, Wellington, -is spending a holiday in Masterton and is staying with her mother. Mrs James Watson. Pownall Street. A well-known Hawke’s Bay resident, Mrs E. M. Davis, widow of the late Mr Charles William Davis, has died, aged 91 years. Mrs Davis was the youngest daughter of the late Mr Richard Barker, Bold Hill. Bridgenorth, Shropshire. She entered the teaching profession, and came to New Zealand in 1871. She taught at Mr Lewis’s private school. Epsom, for a time, and then went to Gisborne, where she married. She lived for many years at Taradale. The winning ticket in the “That Lucky Feeling” art union is held by Miss ' Dorothea McDowall, Bathgate Road, South Dunedin. She is employed as a typist at a match factory in Caversham. Her mother bought the ticket for her from an aged seller in Queen Street. Auckland, on May 6. A remarkable feature of Miss McDowall’s good fortune is that her next-door neighbour in Bathgate Road won £2OOO in an art union about four years ago. Lady Beauchamp died at her residence in Wellington on Saturday. She was the widow of Sir Harold Beauchamp, formerly a well-known merchant and bank director, and father of the late Katherine Mansfield, authoress and poet. Lady Beauchamp, who was Sir Harold's second wife, was an Englishwoman, Miss Laura Kate Newtown, who first married the late Mr Lewis Bright. She visited New Zealand as Mrs Bright about twenty years ago, and some years after the death of her husband married Sir Harold Beauchamp. It is understood that she had no relations in this country,