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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1943, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mrs O’Connor, Kopuaranga, has been the guest of Mrs D. Bender, Island Bay. Mrs J. M. Cole, Willow Grove, Homebush, is spending a holiday with Mrs J. H. S. Cole, Burnett Street, Hastings. Sir Harry Batterbee, High Commissioner in New Zealand for the United Kingdom, is to visit Napier, Hastings, and Gisborne, and will leave Wellington tomorrow.

The wedding took place at Papakura today of Sgt. Eric Eastwood, R.N.Z.A.F,. son of Mrs Stan Thomas of Villa Street, Masterton, to Private Phyllis Finch, W.A.A.C., Papakura. The engagement is announced of Phyllis Lois, younger daughter of Mrs G. Waters, Bannister Street, Masterton, to George Edward, second son of Mr and Mrs G. R. Williams, Winchester Street, Levin.

Miss Norah Doyle, a pupil of St Bride’s Convent, has received advice that she has been successful in the paper work for Elocution Diploma. Miss Doyle passed the practical test last October, gaining 80 marks. She is now an Associate of Trinity College, London. The death has occurred of Sir Kelso King, atjhe age of 89, a Sydney cablegram reports. Sir Kelso King was in the last decade manager of the Mercantile Insurance Company, chairman of Mort’s Dock, and a director of a number of enterprises. He was born in Sydney, became a clerk in the Bank of New South Wales in 1870, resigned in 1875, and became manager of the Mercantile Insurance Company in 1878. The death has occurred at Hastings of Mr Jack Hall, one of the Dominion’s leading horsemen of earlier times. He was born in Featherston 66 years ago, and commenced his racing career with Thomas Coleman at Marton, at a very early age. Later he was employed by Dr. Bennett, of Wanganui. It was as a hurdle and cross-country rider that he made his name. He was considered one of the gamest and coolest riders the Dominion has produced over country. He won two Grand Nationals, Eclair (1907) and Nadador (1909), while he rode the winner of the Hawke’s Bay Steeplechase four years in succession—Victory, Nadador (2) and Eclair.