PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr W. Gilbert has been appointed secretary of the Wellington Bowling Centre in succession to the late Mr A. F. Spiller.

The death occurred in Wellington this week, as the result of having been choked by a piece of meat, of Mr Walter Ladner, aged 62 years, a former resident of Masterton.

President Roosevelt has nominated Mr Lincoln MacVcagh, former Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece, to be United States Minister to Iceland, a Washington cablegram states. The United States Senate has approved the appointment of Senator T. T. Connolly (Democrat, Texas) to be chairman cf its Foreign Relations Committee in succession to Senator W. F. George (Democrat, Georgia), who becomes chairman of the Finance Committee.

Mr Will Appleton has been selected as National Party candidate for Wellington Central. The selection was unanimously made at a meeting of the Wellington Central electorate committee. Mr Appleton contested the seat at the last general election against the present Prime Minister, Mr Fraser.

The death occurred suddenly at Napier yesterday morning of Mr Harold Richardson Horsnell, aged 48. Mr Horsnell was a past master of Scinde Masonic Lodge, being master till last month. He was for some time employed by the Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Cooperative Association, after which he became manager of Murton’s, Ltd., sheep-dip manufacturers. The death occurred yesterday at the Pahiatua Public Hospital of Mrs R. M. Burns, of Glengiel, Ballance. The late Mrs Burns was a daughter of Mr and Mrs Kenneth McKenzie, Greenhaugh. Stoney Creek, Palmerston North, wellknown Palmerston North pioneers. Mrs Chas. Bannister, Church Street, Masterton, is a sister, and Mr T. W. McKenzie, Pirinoa, is a brother of Mrs Burns. Mr R. M. Burns is well known in Masterton as an honorary piper to the Wairarapa Caledonian Society. The funeral will take place at Palmerston North at 1 p.m. on Monday.

Lieutenant-Colonel Caro James Pierce, M.C., died in Hamilton on Thursday night after a protracted illness. In the last war LieutenantColonel Pierce served on Gallipoli and was wounded in the Table Top engagement. On being promoted to commissioned rank he served in the Palestine campaign and was awarded the Military Cross. After the war he farmed at Paterangi. He took an interest in Territorial training and commanded the Waikato Mounted Rifles. At the outbreak of the present war he was in command of the Divisional Cavalry of the First Echelon, and after serving in the Western Desert was invalided home. »