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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1943, Page 2

PERSONAL

The Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister of Supply and Munitions, left Wellington yesterday for Christchurch. Mrs Langley, Upper Plain, has received advice that her son, Lieut. R. W. Langley, has reached his destination. Miss Isobel MacErlich, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs J. MacErlich, South Road, Masterton, has passed her State final examination at the Napier Public Hospital. The engagement is announced of Rosalind Doris, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs R. A. Wilton, Kumeroa, to Private John Roy, youngest son of Mr and Mrs J. Gillespie, Masterton. The death occurred on Sunday at his residence in Papatoetoe of Mr Henry Montague Didsbury, a former officer of the New Zealand Insurance Company, of which he was manager at Auckland for ten years before his retirement in 1930. There was a representative attendance at the funeral of the late Mr E. P. Collerton, of Tinui, which took place at Masterton on Saturday. The services at the church and the graveside were conducted by the Rev Father N. Moore and the. Rev Father Connor. Many beautiful wreaths were sent by sympathisers. Among them was one from Ward Six, Masterton Hospital, and from Messrs Fly, Young and Savage. The pall-bearers were Messrs H._ F. Mclsaac, S. Mclsaac, W. White and W. Holes. Miss Phillipa Acland, who since early in the war was a prisoner of war in Germany, arrived at Christchurch on Saturday, and is now staying with relatives in North Canterbury. She is the only daughter of the late Mr and Mrs H. D. Acland. Miss Acland was returning to New Zealand in the Port Hobart in November, 1940, when the vessel was intercepted by the Nazi raider, Admiral Scheer. The passengers, after a short stay on the pocket battleship, were transferred to the Nordmark, sister ship to the Altmark, and thence to a captured British ship. They were sent to a refugee camp in France, and then to an internment camp in Germany. Their release, on exchange, came suddenly, a party of women being given only a day to prepare for their journey across Europe to Turkey. They travelled from Istanbul to Cairo, and arrived in Australia last month.