PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1942, Page 2

PERSONAL

The engagement is announced of Joan Anita, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs I. A. Gray, Lansdowne, to Kenneth Henry, son of Mr and Mrs G. H. Dean, Tararua Street, Masterton. Lord Reith, who earned £lO,OOO . a year as head of British Overseas Airways, and has recently held several Ministerial posts, has joined the Navy as a lieutenant-commander, earning £1 7s 2d a day, plus allowances. The death occurred on Sunday of Mr Leslie Hinge, of Oriental Terrace, Wellington, who for the last 30 years was one of the best-known Press and commercial photographers in New Zealand. In recent years he was in the employ of the Government. The Hon W. H. Mclntyre, M.L.C., chairman of the Buller Hospital Board for the past seventeen years, was unanimously re-elected chairman yesterday for the ensuing two years, says a Westport Press Association telegram. Mr Mclntyre has been a member of the board for 25 years, and at every election has topped the poll. The death occurred in Wanganui yesterday of Mr Donald Ross. He had been associated with local body affairs in Wanganui for 50 years. He was a member of the Wanganui County Council for 33 years and was also a member of the Waitotara County Council for 23 years, being chairman for 10 years. He served on the Mangawhero Road Board for 23 years, being chairman for 17 years. Mr Ross was patron of the Wanganui A. and P. Association at the time of his death and had been associated with it for 40 years. He resigned from the chairmanship of the Wanganui Harbour Board only last month. The death occurred in Auckland yesterday after a brief illness at the age of 50 of Mr Spencer Rex Mason, who was prominent in Auckland legal and Masonic circles, but who, being a member of a Wellington family, had many friends in Wellington. He was the second son of Mrs and the late Mr H. B. Mason and a brother of the At-torney-General. Mr Mason was educated at The Terrace School and Wellington College and studied for the bar at Victoria University College. On qualifying he commenced to practice at Waiuku as the partner of his elder brother but a few years later, during the last Great War, he joined the R.N.V.R., and with the commission of sub-lieutenant, saw several years’ arduous service in motor-boats, drifters and minesweepers in the North Sea and the Mediterranean. A few years after the cessation of hostilities he moved from Waiuku to Auckland and had practised there ever since.