PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1942, Page 2

PERSONAL

9 Private R. Hollingsworth has been visiting Mr and Mrs T. B. Clark, Masterton. Mr and Mrs Gerald Beard. Longbush, are spending a holiday at Eastbourne.

Miss M. Wilson. Wellington, is the guest of Miss Baird, Pownall Street. Masterton.

Mrs S. Holdsworth. Sussex Street. Masterton, who has been staying with Mrs Scales, Mataikcna, has returned home.

Major-General W. H. Cunningham. C.8.E., D. 5.0., formerly General Officer Commanding. Pacific section, 2nd N.Z.E.F., has now returned to New Zealand.

Mr A. C. Tronson. well known in racing circles, has been appointed to the rank of captain in the Home Guard. Auckland, according to the N.Z. Gazette.

On behalf of the Masterton Borough Council, the Mayor. Mr T. Jordan, at last night’s meeting of the council conveyed to Councillor A. D. Low and family the council’s sympathy in the death of Mrs Low. The engagement is announced of Ellen Elizabeth, third daughter of Mr and Mrs F. C. Wilkin, Mauriceville, to Benjamin John Morrison, elder son of Mr and Mrs E. W. Reid, Church Street, Masterton. A motion of sympathy was passed by the Wairarapa Hospital Board today with Mr Trevor Beetham, a member of the board in the loss 'Of his mother, and with Miss Thurston, a member of the office staff, in the death of her father. Mr Patrick Lucas Hamilton, who lives at Pleasant Point, South Canterbury, yesterday, celebrated his 112th birthday. Mr Hamilton-was born in County Donegal, Ireland, in the reign of William IV, and has seen _ seven Kings on the British Throne during his lifetime. He came to New Zealand in 1370, landing at Lyttelton, but soon went to South Canterbury, where he has lived since. The sympathy of a wide circle of friends will be extended to Mr J. L. Morris, College Street, Masterton, in the death of his wife, which occurred yesterday. The late Mrs Morris was born in Masterton 32 years ago _ and was a granddaughter of Mrs A. Dixon, senior, of Dixon Street, Masterton. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon, leaving the Chapel of Hydes Funeral Service after a service at 2 p.m. for the Masterton Cemetery. , The death has occurred in Christchurch of Major B. T. Wyn Irwin, M.D., who returned home invalided from overseas in February. In 1931 he gained his 8.M., B.Sc. degrees, and after a year as resident house surgeon at the Christchurch Public Hospital, was appointed assistant-lecturer .in bacteriology at the Otago Medical School. In 1933 he was awarded the Lady King Scholarship. He gained the degree of M.D. and the Diploma of Public Health in 1935. Major Wyn Irwin became a medical officer of the Public Health Department, being stationed in, various districts in the North Island.