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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 January 1943, Page 2

PERSONAL

Miss O. R. Sutherland, of Masterton, is visiting Christchurch. Miss Pharazyn, Wellington, is the guest of Mrs C. Campbell Heard, Lansdowne. Mrs G. D. Wilson, Essex Street, Masterton, has returned from a visit to Morere. Miss Ruth Vennison, of Ashburton, is spending a holiday with Mrs Davidson, Villa Street, Masterton. Advice has been received in Masterton that Pte. J. A. Moss had undergone a serious operation and is reported to be in a satisfactory condition. He is the second son of Mrs Moss, Walton’s Avenue, Masterton, and has been in a hospital overseas since November. The honorary degree of doctor of science in the University of New Zealand was conferred by the New Zealand University Senate at Dunedin yesterday on Dr. Alexander Craig Aitken, M.A. (N.Z.), D.Sc. (Edin.), F.R.S. The granting of this degree is restricted to exceptional recommendations, and only a few awards have been made. Well known for his academic achievements in New Zealand and abroad, Dr. Aitken was educated at the Otago Boys’ High School and Otago University, and was for a time a master at Otago High School.

One of New Zealand's pioneer settlers, Mr Alexander McNab, died at Marton recently, aged 83. He was born on board the sailing ship Shooting Star when the vessel was some days out from New Zealand. After their arrival in the colony the McNab family moved to Whangaimoana Station, Palliser Bay, where they remained till 1867. For the next four years they were at Te Awaiti Station, on the East Coast, subsequently returning to Evan’s Bay, Wellington. In 1874 the family moved to Orongorongo. They travelled across the entrance to Port Nicholson in the pilot boat and completed the journey from Baring Head in a bullock dray. Mr McNab later worked on White Rock Station, and in 1893 went into partnership with hisibrother, Mr James McNab, on a bush section near Sanson. They established a dairy farm which they worked with increasing success for many years, retiring in 1929.