PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr G. R. Turner, from Solway, has been appointed assistant teacher at the Shannon School. The death occurred in the Masterton Hospital last night of Mr George Aporo, of Martinborough. The late Mr Aporo was well known in the Lower Valley. He was 65 years of age. Mr and. Mrs E. J. Coleman, Worksop Road, Masterton. has received advice that their son. Driver Graham Coleman, who was last heard of in Crete, is reported missing. The death occurred on Sunday after three weeks’ illness of Mr William Turnbull, head of the firm of Messrs Thomas Turnbull and Son, the oldest firm of architects in Wellington, at the age of 73 years.

Advice has been received by AilHeadquarters, Wellington, that Leading Aircraftman William John Nesbitt. D.C.M., M.M., Croix de Guerre, has been admitted to the Auckland Public Hospital suffering from pneumonia. His condition is serious. Leading Aircraftman Nesbitt served for 12 years with the Irish Guards and received his decorations in the Great War. As a member of the Royal New Zealand Air Force he has been engaged in physical training duties. His next-of-kin is Mrs K. Nesbitt (wife), 11 Ruru Street, Auckland.

The funeral of the late Mrs M. A. Barr took place yesterday afternoon. The service was conducted by the Venerable Archdeacon E. J. Rich. Handsome floral tributes were received from Mr and Mrs Geo. Elliott, Mr and Mrs H. Reid, Mr H. Butcher, Mrs Wadham, Miss Wadham and Mrs Emery, Mrs Dalrymple and Arthur and William Dalrymple, Misses M. and G. Smith. Mrs McGrath and Mrs Torrance, Mr, Mrs and Miss Penistone, the Barr family and the staff of Messrs Hugo and Shearer, Ltd. The pallbearers were Messrs Geo. Elliott, H. Reid, J. R. Barr, Geo. AV. Barr. G. A. Barr and Geo. Hayne.

A link with the early days of the Hutt Valley was severed at the weekend by the death in Wellington of Mr John Blatchford Russell, in his sev-enty-third year. Mr Russell was the son of the late Mr Henry Russell, who was the first white man born in the Hutt Valley. Mr J. B. Russell took up work in the Forty-Mile Bush district. After some years among the sawmills Mr Russell joined the Wairarapa Farmers’ Co-operative Association in 1889, and with the exception of a short period in 1916, was with the firm till he died. He was one of the oldest men in the firm’s employ. He married Miss Elsie M. Ludvigsen. and leaves a family of seven —Mrs H. Fur. ness (Brooklyn), Messrs Rupert Russell (Masterton), Bert Russell and W. J. Russell (Palmerston North), Harold Russell (Hamua), Laurie Russell (Woodville), and Edward S. Russell (Wellington). In his younger days Mr Russell was a well-known Rugby player in the Bush district, where he was a capable wingforward.