PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1943, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mrs A. T. Thompson, Upper Plain, is visiting the South Island. Mrs Ewart, Lansdowne, has returned from a visit to Wellington. Mrs H. R. W. Beetham, Kourarau, is staying at Paraparaumu Beach. Mrs J. Spicer, of Woodville, is the guest of her aunt, Mrs Wiley, Solway.

Mr and Mrs S. W. Smith, of Lansdowne. are on a holiday visit to Seatoun, Wellington. The many friends of Lance Corporal R. J. Wiley, eldest son of Mrs Wiley, Solway, will regret to learn that he has had to enter the Masterton Hospital for treatment. The death of Senor Augustin Justo, aged 66, a former. President, who was an outspoken critic of Argentina’s present foreign policy, is announced from Buenos Aires.

The engagement is announced of Joan Natnlie, second daughter of Mr and Mrs F. Stains, Miriam Street, Masterton, to Pte. Ronald Purvis, son of Mrs F| Salisbury, Broadway, Carterton.

The funeral of the late Mr Mervyn Byrn took place in Masterton yesterday. There was a large attendance of mourners, and a number of floral tributes were received. The services were conducted by the Rev. I. C. Edwards. The pall-bearers were Messrs W. A. Pike, W. Ireland, A. Smith and W. W. Jones. Flight Lieutenant J. H. Kemnitz, at one time on the staff of the Public Trust Office, Masterton, who was stationed on the borders of Thailand with the R.A.F. at the time of the Japanese invasion, is now on duty in Ceylon. Before joining up with the R.A.F., he was in practice in Oamaru as a solicitor. | The death occurred In Masterton this morning' of Mrs Amiria Morris, wife of Mr H. Morris, of Gordon Street, Masterton. The late Mrs Morris, who was 46 years of age, comes of a high caste chieftain tribe of the Wairarapa. She is survived by her husband and nine children. The funeral will leave the residence, Gordon Street, Lansdowne, on Friday, following a service at 10.30 a.m., for the Okautete Cemetery, Homewood.

Major G. L Mather, 2nd N.Z.E.F., has been appointed Assistant Director of Army Education and Welfare Services, Central Military District, relinquishing the post of G.S.O. 11 (Training) at Army Headquarters, which he assumed on his return from the Middle East. He is 36, a master of arts of New Zealand University and of the University of London, and holds a diploma of education from the University of New Zealand. Cable advice has been received of the death of Mr George Ellwood, vio-lon-cellist, as the result of an accident in South Africa on January 7. Mr Ellwood was born in England and came to New Zealand with his parents as a child. He spent his early life in Christchurch and received his musical education on the Continent, studying the ’cello under Jean Gerardy at Liege and Berlin. On his return he toured New Zealand with his sister and brother — the Ellwood trio —and later settled in Wellington, taking a prominent part in the musical life of the city. Some years ago he left for South Africa, and was with the Broadcasting Corporation in Durban. He married Miss Gwen A’Court, of Christchurch, where his parents live.