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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1943, Page 2

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Mr and Mrs H. M. Boddington, Masterton, are visiting Gisborne. Mrs H. W. Robinson and family, Masterton, are staying at Eastbourne.' Mrs W. Kummer and Miss Joyce Kummer, Te Wharau, are staying at Raumati. Miss Maunsell, Bownall Street, Masterton, has returned from a holiday spent at Castlepoint. Miss Jose Hosking, Church Street, Masterton, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs W. K. Logan, Rawene, has returned home.

A baronetcy has come to Auckland. Mr Frank Crossley Mappin, Birchlands, Mountain Road, Auckland, has succeeded his father, Sir Samuel Wilson Mappin, who died recently at the age of 88 years. He becomes the sixth baronet. Sir Frank was born in Lincolnshire. He came to New Zealand 34 years ago and engaged in farming pursuits at Silverdale. Twenty-two years ago he took up his residence in Auckland and made Birchlands his permanent home. In 1909, Sir Frank married Miss Ruby Thomson, daughter of Mr George Lamberton Thomson, Auckland. There are three daughters, Laura, who has been doing war work in England ever since the outbreak of hostilities, Mrs Theo de Lange, and Ethel, who is a St. John Ambulance V.A.D. in Auckland.