PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1942, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mr and Mrs S. W. Eunson, Pongaroa, are visiting Hastings. Visitors to Napier are Mr and Mrs R. C. Scott, of Pongaroa. The many friends of Mrs Spencer Cotter, Te Whiti, will regret to hear that she is a patient in Glenwood Hospital, Masterton. Mr C. W. Gaze, general secretary of the Masterton Y.M.C.A., is at present on leave. With Mrs Gaze, he has been visiting Wanganui. Mrs Helen Brocklehurst, wife of the Very Rev Dean Brocklehurst, died yesterday at the deanery, Napier, following a lengthy period of ill-health. Born in Australia, she came to New Zealand as a young woman, and associated herself with her husband’s, work. She was well known in Hastings, as her husband was vicar at St Matthew’s Church for several years. The death occurred in Hamilton yesterday of Mr Alexander Reside, formerly a well-known resident of the Wairarapa district. The late Mr Reside, who was 85 years of age, spent about 50 years in the Wairarapa, where he worked at Tupurupuru. Matahiwi and Brancepeth, and for a period of twenty years was a fat stock buyer for the Gear Meat Company in the Hawke's Bay, Manawatu and Wairarapa districts. Later he was sheep farming at Stronvar. About seven years ago he took up his residence in Hamilton. The death is reported in a Press Association telegram from Christchurch of Mr George Thomas Booth, aged 84 years. Born in England, Mr Booth was educated in Christchurch, New Zealand, and was in his younger days a notable swimmer. He was managing director of Booth, Macdonald and Co., Ltd., from 1890 to 1925, and was at various times president of the Canterbury Employers’ Association, Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, of which he was a life member, and the New Zealand Employers’ Federation. A former mayor of Sydenham, he was a member of the Christchurch Tramways Board from 1904 to 1927, and again in 1930, and was also for some years on the Board of Governors of Canterbury College. He was a member of the Arbitration Court in 1928-29.