PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1941, Page 2

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mrs G. Thomas, Lett Street, Lansdowne, is visiting Wellington. Miss J. Hosking, Church Street, Masterton, is visiting New Plymouth. Mrs Wilder, Hawke’s Bay, is the guest of Miss J.. McLaren, Renall Street, Masterton. Miss Wallis, Short Street, Masterton, has returned from a visit to Christchurch. Miss J. Sellar, Renall Street, Masterton, has returned from a holidayspent in Wellington. Miss Betsy Sutherland, Hinakura, has returned from a holiday spent at the Chateau Tongariro. The death has occurred after a long illness of Mrs W. R. Don, at the age of 74, reports a Press Association telegram from Dunedin. Mrs Don had a long association with the Methodist Church and was the first woman in New Zealand to become an accredited local preacher, a position she held for 25 years. She devoted most of a useful life to Sunday school and temperance work. She was for many years president of the New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union, superintendent of the Dunedin Central Mission Sunday school, and a member of the Dunedin executive of the Otago Sunday Schools’ Union. She also served on charitable bodies and was organiser for the Dominion Stocking League.