PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1941, Page 2

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mrs F. Hodson, of the Dannevirke High School staff, has left to join her husband in England. Mrs Wright, Senr., of the South Island, and recently of Martinborough, is staying at Kent House, Colombo Road, Master ton. Two residents of Palmerston North, Mr and Mrs J. H. Stevens, celebrated their diamond wedding on Saturday. They were married in the old cathedral in Nelson on December 6, 1881, by the late Rev James Leighton, Mrs Stevens being a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs James Richardson, who arrived at Nelson in 1842 after travelling from Scotland on the same vessel as the parents of Mi- Stevens and landing at Wellington on Christmas Day, 1840. Mr Stevens was born in the Rangitikei district in 1856, his father being an 1840 settler. The following voluntary aids ; and clerical workers have been selected from the Wellington military area for service overseas with the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force Overseas Hospital Division: —M. King, Nola L. Chambers, Mary E. Quin, Dorothy A. Rigby, Natalie S. Whiteman, Kathleen M. Wilson, Molly Pilkington, Verona Hunger, Violet E. Whyte-Hille, Hazel M. W. Moran, Joan N. E. R. Thompson. Marjorie E. Baker, Ida V. Collett, Mary Hogg, Mary E. J. Watts, M. G. Shore, Gladys V. Humphrey, Gladys J. Sloman, Grace M. Saunderson, Wikatoria Katene, Betty M. B. Harper, Edith E. Childs, Mary Drummond, Ria E. Claridge, Emma M. Win, Mary F. Carrol, Margaret K. Burd, Alyson C. Shearer, Phyllis J. Blair, Joan !• Neal.